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. 17 shown for “Table Base with Jonah Swallowed and Cast Up by the Big Fish” — 45 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 14:19 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.
Table Base with Jonah Swallowed and Cast Up by the Big Fish

Table Base with Jonah Swallowed and Cast Up by the Big Fish

Artist not stated in the record · early 300s

Public domainThe Met
Singer treadle sewing machine cabinet table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Singer treadle sewing machine cabinet table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Design for Side Serving Table with two shelves adorned by two Corinthian- column front supports on a two-drawer base, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Side Serving Table with two shelves adorned by two Corinthian- column front supports on a two-drawer base

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Carlo Crivelli

Madonna and Child

Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher with a Figure of Neptune, from "Insignae Ac Planè Novum Opis Cratero Graphicum (A New Artistic Work, Eminent and Clear, On the Vessel)

Pitcher with a Figure of Neptune, from "Insignae Ac Planè Novum Opis Cratero Graphicum (A New Artistic Work, Eminent and Clear, On the Vessel)

Artist not stated in the record · 1551

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair-case quarter-repeating watch, by John Champion

Pair-case quarter-repeating watch

John Champion · ca. 1770–72

Public domainThe Met
Table used at Club Harlem, Atlantic City

Table used at Club Harlem, Atlantic City

Artist not stated in the record · 1955-1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden of the Inept Administrator, by Wen Zhengming

Garden of the Inept Administrator

Wen Zhengming · 1551

Public domainThe Met
Hall stand, by Coalbrookdale Company, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England, founded 1709

Hall stand

Coalbrookdale Company, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England, founded 1709 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sandra Gutiérrez’s Cast-Iron Skillet

Sandra Gutiérrez’s Cast-Iron Skillet

Artist not stated in the record · Between 1985 and 2016

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tables, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Tables

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Studio in the Villa Medici, Rome, by Joseph-Eugène Lacroix, French, 1814 - 1873

A Studio in the Villa Medici, Rome

Joseph-Eugène Lacroix, French, 1814 - 1873 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sad iron owned by members of the Ellis family, by Unidentified

Sad iron owned by members of the Ellis family

Unidentified · before 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Chimneypiece

Design for a Chimneypiece

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tables, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Tables

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table Design with Vases, by Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716

Table Design with Vases

Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716 · 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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2282238 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 14:19 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.