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 “Short coat” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:49 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.
Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584), by Giovanni Battista Moroni

Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584)

Giovanni Battista Moroni · shortly after 1553

Public domainThe Met
Short coat

Short coat

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Short Coat for Image (?)

Short Coat for Image (?)

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Woman's short coat

Woman's short coat

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse groom

Horse groom

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 7th–first half of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Woman's short robe

Woman's short robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cushion, Short Coat and Fur of Tiger, by Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

Cushion, Short Coat and Fur of Tiger

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coat

Coat

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–95

Public domainThe Met
matchsafe

matchsafe

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
ex "Kurtz" Violin, by Andrea Amati

ex "Kurtz" Violin

Andrea Amati · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Riding Coat

Riding Coat

Artist not stated in the record · first half 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Jan de Wael, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Jan de Wael, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1660-1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John on Patmos, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Saint John on Patmos

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

Public domainThe Met
Man's coat (choga)

Man's coat (choga)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
White lab coat worn by Dr. Ben Carson

White lab coat worn by Dr. Ben Carson

Artist not stated in the record · 1984-2012

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror frame

Mirror frame

Artist not stated in the record · third quarter 17th century

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. 188 matched · 24 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 20086 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 06:49 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.