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. 21 shown for “Swing Painter” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:36 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.
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Swing Painter

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Swing Painter · ca. 540–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Girl on a Swing, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Girl on a Swing

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Swing Painter

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Swing Painter · ca. 540–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Girls on a Swing, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Two Girls on a Swing

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), by Swing Painter

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Swing Painter · ca. 540–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Girl on a Swing, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Girl on a Swing

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Lecce Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Lecce Painter · ca. 375–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Boy on a Swing, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Boy on a Swing

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with mythological scene, by Metropolitan Painter

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Girl Standing on a Swing, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Girl Standing on a Swing

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Springtime, by Pierre-Auguste Cot

Springtime

Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kylix (drinking cup), by Amasis Painter

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Amasis Painter · ca. 540 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Receipt for payment for a recording session signed by Ray Charles, by Swing Time Records, American, 1947 - 1953

Receipt for payment for a recording session signed by Ray Charles

Swing Time Records, American, 1947 - 1953 · November 24, 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug), by Meidias Painter

Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)

Meidias Painter · ca. 420–410 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Swinging doors from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse, by Unidentified

Swinging doors from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

Unidentified · 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Quinten Massys

The Adoration of the Magi

Quinten Massys · 1526

Public domainThe Met
Indian Girls Swinging, by Alfred Jacob Miller, born Baltimore, MD 1810-died Baltimore, MD 1874

Indian Girls Swinging

Alfred Jacob Miller, born Baltimore, MD 1810-died Baltimore, MD 1874 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rolltop desk, by David Roentgen

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta one-handled kantharos (drinking cup), by Class of the One-handled Kantharoi

Terracotta one-handled kantharos (drinking cup)

Class of the One-handled Kantharoi · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Model for the so-called "Female Saint of Starnberg", by Ignaz Günther

Model for the so-called "Female Saint of Starnberg"

Ignaz Günther · ca. 1755

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. 37 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 13573 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 13:36 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.