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. 23 shown for “Stars & Crescent Art Gallery” — 60 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 14:11 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.
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Stars & Crescent Art Gallery, Mt. Vernon, Ohio], by Stars & Crescent Art Gallery

[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Stars & Crescent Art Gallery, Mt. Vernon, Ohio]

Stars & Crescent Art Gallery · 1880s–1890s

Public domainThe Met
Hooked Rug with Stars, Crescent and Fret, by Unidentified

Hooked Rug with Stars, Crescent and Fret

Unidentified · after 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring, One of a Pair

Earring, One of a Pair

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Welcome Panel

Welcome Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1621

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkwell with Twelve Zodiac Medallions

Inkwell with Twelve Zodiac Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Interior Wall Elevation with a Bed, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Interior Wall Elevation with a Bed

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi, by Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi

Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi

Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi · dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE

Public domainThe Met
Thakur Ajit Singh worships the Goddess

Thakur Ajit Singh worships the Goddess

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1817

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
Star Fish, by Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918

Star Fish

Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Immaculate Conception, by Guido Reni

The Immaculate Conception

Guido Reni · 1627

Public domainThe Met
Bead

Bead

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3300-2250 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea caddy (one of a pair), by Christopher Jonsen

Tea caddy (one of a pair)

Christopher Jonsen · 1758

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 1301–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Loring Elliott, by Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869

Charles Loring Elliott

Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick

Candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–first half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Pieced quilt (Ohio Star), by Unidentified

Pieced quilt (Ohio Star)

Unidentified · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Schellenbaum

Schellenbaum

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pieced quilt (Variable Star), by Unidentified

Pieced quilt (Variable Star)

Unidentified · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cypresses, by Vincent van Gogh

Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
The three stars, by Formerly attributed to Gong Kai 龔開 (1222-1307)

The three stars

Formerly attributed to Gong Kai 龔開 (1222-1307) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pen Box

Pen Box

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century?

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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 3 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. 128 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-05 14:11 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.