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 “T. V. A., Barcelona” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 06:36 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.
Platter, by T. V. A., Barcelona

Platter

T. V. A., Barcelona · 1659–1700

Public domainThe Met
Handroanthus billbergii (Bureau & K. Schum.) S.O. Grose

Handroanthus billbergii (Bureau & K. Schum.) S.O. Grose

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb of Ermengol X, Count of Urgell

Tomb of Ermengol X, Count of Urgell

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1350

Public domainThe Met
Dimocarpus longan subsp. malesianus Leenh.

Dimocarpus longan subsp. malesianus Leenh.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Mar 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Tomb of Don Àlvar Rodrigo de Cabrera, Count of Urgell and His Wife Cecília of Foix

Double Tomb of Don Àlvar Rodrigo de Cabrera, Count of Urgell and His Wife Cecília of Foix

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1350

Public domainThe Met
Antrophyum sessilifolium (Cav.) A. Spreng.

Antrophyum sessilifolium (Cav.) A. Spreng.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Feb 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Pterospermum perrinii Elmer

Pterospermum perrinii Elmer

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Feb 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spandrel

Spandrel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1130–40

Public domainThe Met
Helicteres hirsuta Lour.

Helicteres hirsuta Lour.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Feb 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary

Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Guioa sp.

Guioa sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56), by Peter Peck

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)

Peter Peck · ca. 1540–45

Public domainThe Met
Phlegmariurus proliferus (Blume) A. R. Field & Bostock

Phlegmariurus proliferus (Blume) A. R. Field & Bostock

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Apr 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Blechnum melanocaulon (Brack.) T.C. Chambers & P. A. Farrant

Blechnum melanocaulon (Brack.) T.C. Chambers & P. A. Farrant

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Apr 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada, by Edouard Manet

Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada

Edouard Manet · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Antrophyum sessilifolium (Cav.) A. Spreng.

Antrophyum sessilifolium (Cav.) A. Spreng.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Mar 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Column Statue of a King

Column Statue of a King

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Phlegmariurus banayanicus (Herter) A. R. Field & Bostock

Phlegmariurus banayanicus (Herter) A. R. Field & Bostock

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Vision of Saint John, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Vision of Saint John

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtandra sp.

Cyrtandra sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609), by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Blarina brevicauda talpoides

Blarina brevicauda talpoides

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1962

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. 1139 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. 2280224 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-29 06:36 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.