OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 19 shown for “S. I. Tobias” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:16 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Tobias, by Severo Calzetta da Ravenna

Tobias

Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · early to mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Solanum vestissimum Dunal

Solanum vestissimum Dunal

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1958 to 14 Jan 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Myrcia fallax (Rich.) DC.

Myrcia fallax (Rich.) DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1958 to 14 Jan 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair-case watch, by S. I. Tobias

Pair-case watch

S. I. Tobias · 1824–25

Public domainThe Met
Klaprothia mentzelioides Kunth

Klaprothia mentzelioides Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1958 to 14 Jan 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-chambered bottle, by Wari artist(s)

Double-chambered bottle

Wari artist(s) · 800–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Solanum vestissimum Dunal

Solanum vestissimum Dunal

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1958 to 14 Jan 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha

Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Solanum felinum Bitter

Solanum felinum Bitter

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1958 to 14 Jan 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book cover for Pentateuch and Five Scrolls, by Tobias Schier

Book cover for Pentateuch and Five Scrolls

Tobias Schier · silver: 1721–ca. 1727; book: 1699–1701 and 1700–1701

Public domainThe Met
Solanum felinum Bitter

Solanum felinum Bitter

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1958 to 14 Jan 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David and Goliath, by Francesco Fanelli

David and Goliath

Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

Public domainThe Met
Saurauia excelsa Willd.

Saurauia excelsa Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1958 to 14 Jan 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King Clothar I

King Clothar I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
King Clovis I

King Clovis I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
Seated Statue of King Senwosret I

Seated Statue of King Senwosret I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Ritual Scene with Senwosret I

Ritual Scene with Senwosret I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 12929 matched · 24 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 975029 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:16 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.