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. 12 shown for “The Mass of St. Gregory” — 40 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:42 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

The Mass of St. Gregory

The Mass of St. Gregory

Artist not stated in the record · 1511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Basil and Saint Gregory

Saint Basil and Saint Gregory

Artist not stated in the record · 1665-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
San Gregorio Magno, by Unidentified

San Gregorio Magno

Unidentified · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sparganium chlorocarpum Rydb.

Sparganium chlorocarpum Rydb.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hordeum lechleri (Steud.) Schenck

Hordeum lechleri (Steud.) Schenck

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jan 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with a Sack

The Holy Family with a Sack

Artist not stated in the record · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Palazzio Vecchio, Loggia, and Pizza on Occation of Fête in homage to St. John the Baptist, Plate 23 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

View of Palazzio Vecchio, Loggia, and Pizza on Occation of Fête in homage to St. John the Baptist, Plate 23 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

Artist not stated in the record · 1744

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Xylocopa (Notoxylocopa) tabaniformis orpifex

Xylocopa (Notoxylocopa) tabaniformis orpifex

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Xylocopa (Notoxylocopa) tabaniformis orpifex

Xylocopa (Notoxylocopa) tabaniformis orpifex

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) varipuncta

Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) varipuncta

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Xylocopa (Notoxylocopa) tabaniformis orpifex

Xylocopa (Notoxylocopa) tabaniformis orpifex

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Xylocopa (Notoxylocopa) tabaniformis orpifex

Xylocopa (Notoxylocopa) tabaniformis orpifex

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1961

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3051441 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 18:42 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.