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. 17 shown for “Spittoon in Double Bell Design” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:13 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.
Spittoon in Double Bell Design

Spittoon in Double Bell Design

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bell and Belfry

Design for a Bell and Belfry

Artist not stated in the record · 1739

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56), by Peter Peck

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)

Peter Peck · ca. 1540–45

Public domainThe Met
Iceberg near Belle Isle, Canada, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Iceberg near Belle Isle, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 15, 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monastery Bell

Monastery Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Tassel

Tassel

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bell

Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 500–1520 CE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Title Page

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bell

Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 500–1520 CE

Public domainThe Met
Plate, by Veuve Perrin Factory, France, 1748 - 1803

Plate

Veuve Perrin Factory, France, 1748 - 1803 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oboe in C, by Jacob Denner

Oboe in C

Jacob Denner · before 1735

Public domainThe Met
Bassoon in C, by Jean-Jacques Baumann

Bassoon in C

Jean-Jacques Baumann · ca. 1813–25

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child, by Duccio di Buoninsegna

Madonna and Child

Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Public domainThe Met
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Kunda

Kunda

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Gudastviri

Gudastviri

Artist not stated in the record

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. 88 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 7461166 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 13:13 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.