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 “Square Tray with Recessed Medallion” — 49 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 09:27 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.
Square Tray with Recessed Medallion

Square Tray with Recessed Medallion

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper, by Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Sandy Hill, New York

Ceiling paper

Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Sandy Hill, New York · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Bedcover

Bedcover

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Tureen and Stand, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tureen and Stand

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square "Work Box" Piano, by S. Hart & Son

Square "Work Box" Piano

S. Hart & Son · first quarter 19th century

Public domainThe Met
"Henry Clay" cigar box

"Henry Clay" cigar box

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square "Work Box" Piano

Square "Work Box" Piano

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Square

Square

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case

Mirror Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Medallion

Medallion

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing figure, by Tiwanaku artist(s)

Standing figure

Tiwanaku artist(s) · 500–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sideboard with Serpentine Front and Ball and Claw Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard with Serpentine Front and Ball and Claw Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Sebastiano Ricci

The Baptism of Christ

Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

Public domainThe Met
Square

Square

Artist not stated in the record · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment with Mamluk Emblem

Textile Fragment with Mamluk Emblem

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–8th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray

Tray

Artist not stated in the record · early to mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Sideboard with Ten Drawers and Ball and Claw Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard with Ten Drawers and Ball and Claw Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · April 21, 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Sideboard with Cabriole Legs and Ball and Claw Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard with Cabriole Legs and Ball and Claw Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 256822 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-30 09:27 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.