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. 21 shown for “Thomas Toft II” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:24 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.
Display dish with Charles II (1630–1685) in a tree, by Thomas Toft

Display dish with Charles II (1630–1685) in a tree

Thomas Toft · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw.

Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by Thomas Toft II

Dish

Thomas Toft II · ca. 1670–1700

Public domainThe Met
Puccinellia distans (Jacq.) Parl.

Puccinellia distans (Jacq.) Parl.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise, by Camille Pissarro

A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise

Camille Pissarro · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Carex capitata L.

Carex capitata L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Mifflin, by John Trumbull

Thomas Mifflin

John Trumbull · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Curmillon, Mid-Wales, by Peter Toft, born Kolding, Denmark 1825-died London, England 1901

Curmillon, Mid-Wales

Peter Toft, born Kolding, Denmark 1825-died London, England 1901 · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers), by Thomas Gainsborough

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)

Thomas Gainsborough · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Orthotrichum killiasii Müll. Hal.

Orthotrichum killiasii Müll. Hal.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book cover, by Johann Jakob Bruglocher II

Book cover

Johann Jakob Bruglocher II · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Thinopyrum intermedium (Host) Barkworth & Dewey

Thinopyrum intermedium (Host) Barkworth & Dewey

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823), by Thomas Gainsborough

Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823)

Thomas Gainsborough · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus hudsonicus

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus hudsonicus

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Apr 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1173–80

Public domainThe Met
Polygala amara L.

Polygala amara L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rapier of Prince-Elector Christian II of Saxony (1583–1611), by Israel Schuech

Rapier of Prince-Elector Christian II of Saxony (1583–1611)

Israel Schuech · dated 1606

Public domainThe Met
Penstemon pallidus Small

Penstemon pallidus Small

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield of Henry II of France (reigned 1547–59)

Shield of Henry II of France (reigned 1547–59)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Double-Sided Ivory Liturgical Comb with Scenes of Henry II and Thomas Becket

Double-Sided Ivory Liturgical Comb with Scenes of Henry II and Thomas Becket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1210

Public domainThe Met
Henri II Ware salt, by Joseph Francois Léon Arnoux

Henri II Ware salt

Joseph Francois Léon Arnoux · ca. 1870

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. 3079 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 152741 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:24 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.