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 “Table screen with land of immortals” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:21 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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 screen with land of immortals

Table screen with land of immortals

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table screen with land of immortals

Table screen with land of immortals

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table Screen with land of immortals

Table Screen with land of immortals

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Female immortal with a basket

Female immortal with a basket

Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table screen with land of immortals

Table screen with land of immortals

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Immortal Magu with deer and peach tree

Immortal Magu with deer and peach tree

Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
Bleriot XI, by Blériot Aéronautique

Bleriot XI

Blériot Aéronautique · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table screen with landscape

Table screen with landscape

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
A Medal of Napoleon Bonaparte as President of the Italian Republic, verso; Hebe Gives Immortality to Hercules's Charioteer, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

A Medal of Napoleon Bonaparte as President of the Italian Republic, verso; Hebe Gives Immortality to Hercules's Charioteer

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1802–04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Immortals, by Hasegawa Sakon 長谷川左近

Immortals

Hasegawa Sakon 長谷川左近 · ca. 1620s–30s

Public domainThe Met
Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table

Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Public domainThe Met
netsuke

netsuke

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Public domainThe Met
Tsuba, by Bairiuken Kiyonaga, Japanese

Tsuba

Bairiuken Kiyonaga, Japanese · 1830–43

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing table (bureau plat), by Gilles Joubert

Writing table (bureau plat)

Gilles Joubert · 1759

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1786

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table screen with Bodhidharma and landscape of Jinshan Island

Table screen with Bodhidharma and landscape of Jinshan Island

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

Public domainThe Met
Stand

Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

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. 274 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 6617500 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-28 13:21 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.