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 “Scene from The Illustrated Legends of Jin’ōji Temple” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 00:13 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.
Scene from The Illustrated Legends of Jin’ōji Temple

Scene from The Illustrated Legends of Jin’ōji Temple

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Baptism of St. Martin

Baptism of St. Martin

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene from The Illustrated Legends of Jin’ōji Temple (Jin’ōji engi emaki)

Scene from The Illustrated Legends of Jin’ōji Temple (Jin’ōji engi emaki)

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Knights confessing their Christianity to Emperor Maxentius

Knights confessing their Christianity to Emperor Maxentius

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre

Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170

Public domainThe Met
St. Catherine confounding scholars before Emperor Maxentius

St. Catherine confounding scholars before Emperor Maxentius

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenjin engi emaki)

Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenjin engi emaki)

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
St. Catherine brought to Emperor Maxentius by her jailors

St. Catherine brought to Emperor Maxentius by her jailors

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Michael; The Mass of Saint Gregory; Saint Jerome, by Master of the Saint Catherine Legend

Saint Michael; The Mass of Saint Gregory; Saint Jerome

Master of the Saint Catherine Legend

Public domainThe Met
St. Martin healing the lame and blind beggars against their wishes

St. Martin healing the lame and blind beggars against their wishes

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47

Public domainThe Met
Snow scene at Gongen Temple of Nezu, by Kawase Hasui, Japanese, 1883 – 1957

Snow scene at Gongen Temple of Nezu

Kawase Hasui, Japanese, 1883 – 1957 · ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

"Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590–95

Public domainThe Met
"Achille reconnu par Ulysse", by Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818

"Achille reconnu par Ulysse"

Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
(Ichabod Crane from Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Darley, Felix Octavius Carr

(Ichabod Crane from Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Darley, Felix Octavius Carr · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century)

Virgin and Child

Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century) · ca. 1480–90

Public domainThe Met
Ichabod Crane from Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Darley, Felix Octavius Carr

Ichabod Crane from Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Darley, Felix Octavius Carr · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle illustrating Meritptah honoring Bastet

Bottle illustrating Meritptah honoring Bastet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ichabod Crane from Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Darley, Felix Octavius Carr

Ichabod Crane from Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Darley, Felix Octavius Carr · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four miniatures of the life of Christ from a gospel book of 1311 (Presentation, Baptism, Transfiguration, Entry into Jerusalem), by T'oros the Deacon

Four miniatures of the life of Christ from a gospel book of 1311 (Presentation, Baptism, Transfiguration, Entry into Jerusalem)

T'oros the Deacon · 1311

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for Scenes Four and Five of Cartoon for Cotton Printing: L'Histoire de Henri IV, by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Sketches for Scenes Four and Five of Cartoon for Cotton Printing: L'Histoire de Henri IV

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening bell from mist-shrouded temple (left); Autumn moon over Lake Dongting (right), by An Gyeon

Evening bell from mist-shrouded temple (left); Autumn moon over Lake Dongting (right)

An Gyeon · ca. 1450–1500

Public domainThe Met
Legend of Sleepy Hollow illustration, by Darley, Felix Octavius Carr

Legend of Sleepy Hollow illustration

Darley, Felix Octavius Carr · delete

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. 245 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. 3093467 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-01 00:13 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.