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. 16 shown for “Storage Trunk (Nagamochi) with Family Crests, Pine, and Foliage Pattern” — 44 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:49 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.
Storage Trunk (Nagamochi) with Family Crests, Pine, and Foliage Pattern

Storage Trunk (Nagamochi) with Family Crests, Pine, and Foliage Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Palampore

Palampore

Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johann Valentin Gevers

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Pemadumcook Pines, Maine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Pemadumcook Pines, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 3, 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680–1700

Public domainThe Met
Palampore

Palampore

Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase clock with calendar and alarm, by Ahasuerus II Fromanteel

Longcase clock with calendar and alarm

Ahasuerus II Fromanteel · ca. 1690–94

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Palampore

Palampore

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse wrapping cloth (umakake)

Horse wrapping cloth (umakake)

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Various Symbols Motif

Various Symbols Motif

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abstract blossoms and kanoko pattern

Abstract blossoms and kanoko pattern

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by Jonas & Walley

Pitcher

Jonas & Walley · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea Knife with Japanesque Style Pattern Engraved Handle, by Wood & Hughes, New York, U.S.A., 1845 – 1899

Tea Knife with Japanesque Style Pattern Engraved Handle

Wood & Hughes, New York, U.S.A., 1845 – 1899 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th 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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1579141 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-02 00:49 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.