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. 18 shown for “Stopped double pipe with bellows” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 14:23 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.
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Scent flask

Scent flask

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stopped double pipe with bellows

Stopped double pipe with bellows

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate XI, from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum

Plate XI, from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum

Artist not stated in the record · 1582

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pipe Organ, by Thomas Appleton

Pipe Organ

Thomas Appleton · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Letter carrier uniform jacket, by Penn Garment Co.

Letter carrier uniform jacket

Penn Garment Co. · 1956-1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whistle

Whistle

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Floor tile

Floor tile

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stopped Pipe with bellows

Stopped Pipe with bellows

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Doors, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for Doors

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Stopped Whistle

Double Stopped Whistle

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Dessein d'un Poële de terre vernissée en blanc, avec tous ses ornement, et principales moulures dorés, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Dessein d'un Poële de terre vernissée en blanc, avec tous ses ornement, et principales moulures dorés

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1757

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portative Organ

Portative Organ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1889

Public domainThe Met
Union Pipe, by J. Sharp

Union Pipe

J. Sharp · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Musette Baroque, by Unknown

Musette Baroque

Unknown · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Uilleann Pipe

Uilleann Pipe

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Lowland Pipe

Lowland Pipe

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Bellows with the Flight into Egypt

Bellows with the Flight into Egypt

Artist not stated in the record · first half 16th century or later

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. 44 matched · 24 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. 263506 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 14:23 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.