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 “Tenor Cornetto in D” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 17:44 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.
Tenor Cornetto in D

Tenor Cornetto in D

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Androsace helvetica (L.) All.

Androsace helvetica (L.) All.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 12/8/84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tenor Cornetto in D

Tenor Cornetto in D

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Geum montanum L.

Geum montanum L.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tenor valve trombone, by Adolphe (Antoine Joseph) Sax

Tenor valve trombone

Adolphe (Antoine Joseph) Sax · ca. 1863

Public domainThe Met
Rubus saxatilis L.

Rubus saxatilis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tenor Cornetto in G

Tenor Cornetto in G

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ficus ischnopoda Miq.

Ficus ischnopoda Miq.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1990

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bala

Bala

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Ixonanthes icosandra Jack

Ixonanthes icosandra Jack

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1990

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cornetto in D or C

Cornetto in D or C

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Tenor Violoncello

Tenor Violoncello

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Alto or Tenor Cornopean, by Melchior Gomar de Vries

Alto or Tenor Cornopean

Melchior Gomar de Vries · 1837–50

Public domainThe Met
Tenor Sarrusophone in B flat, by Gautrot-Marquet

Tenor Sarrusophone in B flat

Gautrot-Marquet · ca. 1856–89

Public domainThe Met
The Demidoff Table, by Lorenzo Bartolini

The Demidoff Table

Lorenzo Bartolini · 1845

Public domainThe Met
Punch Bowl

Punch Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1751

Public domainThe Met
Saint Francis in Ecstasy, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

Saint Francis in Ecstasy

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · ca. 1650

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. 39 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 7462446 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 17:44 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.