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. 12 shown for “Standing Female Attendant” — 40 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:25 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Allegorical Figure of "Asia", by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Allegorical Figure of "Asia"

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure of "Europe", by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Allegorical Figure of "Europe"

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure of "Africa", by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Allegorical Figure of "Africa"

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jeweled Sculpture of Antony, Cleopatra, and Attendant

Jeweled Sculpture of Antony, Cleopatra, and Attendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 1701–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Magus and Youth, with a Horse and Groom, plate 19 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Magus and Youth, with a Horse and Groom, plate 19 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hommage d l'Amerique a France

Hommage d l'Amerique a France

Artist not stated in the record · 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adoration of the Magi, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Adoration of the Magi

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin and Child

The Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Arabesque Motif, by Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802

Design for an Arabesque Motif

Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crucifixion with the Four Evangelists [left]; Saint Bridget [right, above]; Hospital Scene [right, below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Crucifixion with the Four Evangelists [left]; Saint Bridget [right, above]; Hospital Scene [right, below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 560573 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-27 12:25 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.