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 “Spotted Feline” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 13:49 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.
Spotted Feline

Spotted Feline

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Square from hanging

Square from hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spotted Feline Bottle

Spotted Feline Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with caiman, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Bottle with caiman

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1000–800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Inscriptions from Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Inscriptions from Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · December 17, 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Campanula aparinoides Pursh

Campanula aparinoides Pursh

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feline figure, by Condorhuasi artist(s)

Feline figure

Condorhuasi artist(s) · 500 BCE–500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze pointed neck-amphora with stand

Bronze pointed neck-amphora with stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lycopus virginicus L.

Lycopus virginicus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup-spout bottle with feline and snake, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with feline and snake

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Poa badensis

Poa badensis

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double bowl, by Inca artist(s)

Double bowl

Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Public domainThe Met
Senna hayesiana (Britton & Rose) H.S. Irwin & Barneby

Senna hayesiana (Britton & Rose) H.S. Irwin & Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Oct 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hieracium albiflorum Hook.

Hieracium albiflorum Hook.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant, by Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s)

Pendant

Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s) · 1300–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Hieracium horridum Fr.

Hieracium horridum Fr.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feline-shaped stirrup-spout bottle, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Feline-shaped stirrup-spout bottle

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Campanula rotundifolia L.

Campanula rotundifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feline-shaped spout-and-bridge bottle, by Paracas artist(s)

Feline-shaped spout-and-bridge bottle

Paracas artist(s) · 800–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Erigeron breweri A. Gray

Erigeron breweri A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1988

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. 38 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. 3176 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-09 13:49 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.