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. 21 shown for “Sadler and Green” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 09:16 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.
Plate, by Sadler and Green

Plate

Sadler and Green · 1752–96

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by Sadler and Green, English

Tile

Sadler and Green, English · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee (one of a pair), by John Mayhew

Settee (one of a pair)

John Mayhew · 1769–71

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by Sadler and Green, English

Tile

Sadler and Green, English · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (one of a set of six), by John Mayhew

Armchair (one of a set of six)

John Mayhew · 1769–71

Public domainThe Met
Scrapbook of early aeronautica / collected by William Upcott

Scrapbook of early aeronautica / collected by William Upcott

Artist not stated in the record · 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monumental vase, by Pierre Philippe Thomire

Monumental vase

Pierre Philippe Thomire · lapidary work: early 19th century; pedestal and mounts: 1819

Public domainThe Met
Osteospermum polypterum (DC.) Sadler

Osteospermum polypterum (DC.) Sadler

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Aug 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso of Christ

Torso of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Osteospermum polypterum (DC.) Sadler

Osteospermum polypterum (DC.) Sadler

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Singer in Green, by Edgar Degas

The Singer in Green

Edgar Degas · ca. 1884

Public domainThe Met
Bupleurum affine Sadler

Bupleurum affine Sadler

Artist not stated in the record · 189

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour), by Martin Carlin

Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1768

Public domainThe Met
Bupleurum affine Sadler

Bupleurum affine Sadler

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine Rinser, by Pellatt & Green

Wine Rinser

Pellatt & Green · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Doronicum hungaricum (Sadler) Rchb. f.

Doronicum hungaricum (Sadler) Rchb. f.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doronicum hungaricum (Sadler) Rchb. f.

Doronicum hungaricum (Sadler) Rchb. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doronicum hungaricum (Sadler) Rchb. f.

Doronicum hungaricum (Sadler) Rchb. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bupleurum affine Sadler

Bupleurum affine Sadler

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salt, by Pellatt & Green

Salt

Pellatt & Green · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Bupleurum affine Sadler

Bupleurum affine Sadler

Artist not stated in the record · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 8926 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1531264 matched · 40 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 09:16 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.