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 “Toit a Porcs” — 55 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:09 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.
Maison au toit de chaume, by Unknown

Maison au toit de chaume

Unknown · 1850–53

Public domainThe Met
Toit a Porcs

Toit a Porcs

Artist not stated in the record · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferme au toit de chaume, by Unknown

Ferme au toit de chaume

Unknown · 1850–53

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus festivus Hochst. ex A. Rich.

Sporobolus festivus Hochst. ex A. Rich.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Mar 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charette devant l'entrée d'un abri au toit de chaume, by Unknown

Charette devant l'entrée d'un abri au toit de chaume

Unknown · 1850–53

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis tenuifolia (A. Rich.) Hochst. ex Steud.

Eragrostis tenuifolia (A. Rich.) Hochst. ex Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Herd of Pigs, by Charles Jacque

A Herd of Pigs

Charles Jacque · 1850

Public domainThe Met
Solanum selachophyllum Bitter

Solanum selachophyllum Bitter

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with scenes of storm on land, by Dihl et Guérhard

Vase with scenes of storm on land

Dihl et Guérhard · ca. 1797–98

Public domainThe Met
Knautia brandzai Porc.

Knautia brandzai Porc.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with scenes of storm at sea, by Dihl et Guérhard

Vase with scenes of storm at sea

Dihl et Guérhard · ca. 1797–98

Public domainThe Met
Chlorophanes spiza subtropicalis

Chlorophanes spiza subtropicalis

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Gilt-Bronze Chinese Porcelain Candelabra with Fifteen Arms, by Anonymous, French, 19th century

Design for a Gilt-Bronze Chinese Porcelain Candelabra with Fifteen Arms

Anonymous, French, 19th century · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Machaeropterus regulus antioquiae

Machaeropterus regulus antioquiae

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Feeding Pigs, by Charles Jacque

Woman Feeding Pigs

Charles Jacque · 1850

Public domainThe Met
Opera Nova Universali intitulata Corona di racammi, title page (recto), by Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

Opera Nova Universali intitulata Corona di racammi, title page (recto)

Giovanni Andrea Vavassore · [1530]

Public domainThe Met
Les Secondes Oeuvres, et Subtiles Inventions De Lingerie du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, page 67 (verso), by Federico de Vinciolo

Les Secondes Oeuvres, et Subtiles Inventions De Lingerie du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, page 67 (verso)

Federico de Vinciolo · 1603

Public domainThe Met
Plate, by Villeroy

Plate

Villeroy · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Vireo olivaceus olivaceus

Vireo olivaceus olivaceus

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Pratique de l'Aiguille, page 3 (verso), by Matthias Mignerak

La Pratique de l'Aiguille, page 3 (verso)

Matthias Mignerak · 1605

Public domainThe Met
Machaeropterus regulus antioquiae

Machaeropterus regulus antioquiae

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1950

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. 15 matched · 15 examined · 2 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. 1765670 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-03 15:09 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.