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. 24 shown for “Saturn, from The Seven Planets” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:27 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.
Saturn, from "The Seven Planets", by Heinrich Aldegrever

Saturn, from "The Seven Planets"

Heinrich Aldegrever · 1533

Public domainThe Met
Saturn, from The Seven Planets

Saturn, from The Seven Planets

Artist not stated in the record · 1539

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saturn holding an Infant and a Scythe, from "The Seven Planets", by Heinrich Aldegrever

Saturn holding an Infant and a Scythe, from "The Seven Planets"

Heinrich Aldegrever · 1533

Public domainThe Met
The Moon, from The Seven Planets, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

The Moon, from The Seven Planets

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1539

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray Made for the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'ud ibn Yusuf

Tray Made for the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'ud ibn Yusuf

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
The Sun, from The Seven Planets, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

The Sun, from The Seven Planets

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1539

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Mars, from The Seven Planets, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

Mars, from The Seven Planets

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1539

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saturn, from "The Planets", by Jacob Matham

Saturn, from "The Planets"

Jacob Matham · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Jupiter, from The Seven Planets

Jupiter, from The Seven Planets

Artist not stated in the record · 1539

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs

Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Venus, from The Seven Planets, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

Venus, from The Seven Planets

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1539

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Throne of Saturn, by Elihu Vedder, born New York City 1836-died Rome, Italy 1923

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Throne of Saturn

Elihu Vedder, born New York City 1836-died Rome, Italy 1923 · 1883-1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus, from The Seven Planets, by Georg Pencz

Venus, from The Seven Planets

Georg Pencz

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, The Seven Planets, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

Title Page, The Seven Planets

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1539

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars, from The Seven Planets, by Heinrich Aldegrever

Mars, from The Seven Planets

Heinrich Aldegrever · 1533

Public domainThe Met
Mercury, from The Seven Planets, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

Mercury, from The Seven Planets

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1539

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saturn, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets", by Master I.B.

Saturn, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

Master I.B. · 1525

Public domainThe Met
Space is the Place, by North American Star System Production, American

Space is the Place

North American Star System Production, American · 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jupiter, from "The Seven Planets", by Heinrich Aldegrever

Jupiter, from "The Seven Planets"

Heinrich Aldegrever · 1533

Public domainThe Met
Poster for the film Space is the Place

Poster for the film Space is the Place

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Public domainThe Met
Spacecraft, Mariner 10, Flight Spare, by Boeing Aerospace Company

Spacecraft, Mariner 10, Flight Spare

Boeing Aerospace Company

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. 46 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1357608 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-03 23:27 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.