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. 24 shown for “Support Bar” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:32 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.
Support Bar

Support Bar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Side table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Side table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guitar, by Johann Anton Stauffer

Guitar

Johann Anton Stauffer · ca. 1835–40

Public domainThe Met
birdcage

birdcage

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Khusrau and Shirin, by Hatifi

Khusrau and Shirin

Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans, by Unidentified

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

Unidentified · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Latch, Support, Bar, and Catch

Latch, Support, Bar, and Catch

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1800

Public domainThe Met
Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans, by Unidentified

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

Unidentified · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gondola prow

Gondola prow

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Dish Stand with Extending Arms and a Small Spirit Lamp, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Dish Stand with Extending Arms and a Small Spirit Lamp

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book Cover with Crucifixion Panel

Book Cover with Crucifixion Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Bench with seat cushion from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Bench with seat cushion from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piano Harmonica, by J. B. Cramer & Co.

Piano Harmonica

J. B. Cramer & Co. · ca. 1870–96

Public domainThe Met
Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church

Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rock Harmonicon, by William Till

Rock Harmonicon

William Till · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Saint Bernard mediates a dispute between Bishop Stephan von Bar and Duke Matthew von Lothringen in Metz (one of two)

Life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Saint Bernard mediates a dispute between Bishop Stephan von Bar and Duke Matthew von Lothringen in Metz (one of two)

Artist not stated in the record · after 1535

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain used by Paolo Emilio Barberi (1777-?) as Competition Entry in the 1795 Concorso Clementino, Rome (Accademia di San Luca), by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Fountain used by Paolo Emilio Barberi (1777-?) as Competition Entry in the 1795 Concorso Clementino, Rome (Accademia di San Luca)

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Keyboard Glockenspiel

Keyboard Glockenspiel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Kourt King croquet game set caddy from Rock Rest Tourist Home

Kourt King croquet game set caddy from Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stained Glass Panel with the Visitation

Stained Glass Panel with the Visitation

Artist not stated in the record · 1444

Public domainThe Met
John Peard's 1873 School Tablet Desk and Seat Patent Model

John Peard's 1873 School Tablet Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lyre Guitar, by Gennaro Fabricatore

Lyre Guitar

Gennaro Fabricatore · 1807

Public domainThe Met
Andiron

Andiron

Artist not stated in the record · 1785-1825

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. 203 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 20122 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-04 05:32 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.