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 “Small Cuff with Concentric Circles” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:06 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.
Small Cuff with Concentric Circles

Small Cuff with Concentric Circles

Artist not stated in the record · 300 BCE–CE 200

Public domainThe Met
Sleeve cuff

Sleeve cuff

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA

Textile

Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA · ca. 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Public domainThe Met
Plate

Plate

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, by Veit Langenbucher

Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ

Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper, by William H. Mairs and Company, Brooklyn, New York

Ceiling paper

William H. Mairs and Company, Brooklyn, New York · 1905–1915

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
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Jan Provoost

The Crucifixion

Jan Provoost · ca. 1495

Public domainThe Met
Plate 12 of the Recueil d' ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique..., by Etienne Joseph Daudet, French, 1672 - 1730

Plate 12 of the Recueil d' ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique...

Etienne Joseph Daudet, French, 1672 - 1730 · 1732

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass pyxis with lid

Glass pyxis with lid

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Wooded Vale, Jamaica, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Wooded Vale, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hexagonal amphoriskos

Glass hexagonal amphoriskos

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass pyxis (box with lid)

Glass pyxis (box with lid)

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–mid-1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church

Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–early 9th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wool sweater for the Eastern Colored League

Wool sweater for the Eastern Colored League

Artist not stated in the record · 1923-1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass jar in the shape of a bunch of grapes

Glass jar in the shape of a bunch of grapes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Medal for the 100th anniversary of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New Jersey

Medal for the 100th anniversary of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New Jersey

Artist not stated in the record · 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Drawings, by Filippo Juvarra

Album of Drawings

Filippo Juvarra · 1678–1736

Public domainThe Met
Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal, by Frederik Christopher Krohn, Danish, 1806 - 1883

Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal

Frederik Christopher Krohn, Danish, 1806 - 1883 · April 18, 1834

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. 163 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. 307806 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-29 00:06 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.