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 “Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:43 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.
Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace

Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray, by Sèvres Manufactory

Tray

Sèvres Manufactory · 1836

Public domainThe Met
Catching a mouse, by Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese, 1754 – 1806

Catching a mouse

Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese, 1754 – 1806 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Merry Company on a Terrace, by Jan Steen

Merry Company on a Terrace

Jan Steen · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Serving Vessel, Les Glaces (Ice Cream) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Serving Vessel, Les Glaces (Ice Cream) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Gathering

Garden Gathering

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Breakfast

Breakfast

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Garden Scene from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Garden Scene from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1821–24

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Lecce Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Lecce Painter · ca. 375–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Compotes et Marmelades (Compotes and Marmalades) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Compotes et Marmelades (Compotes and Marmalades) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot), by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Public domainThe Met
Garden Party of the Children

Garden Party of the Children

Artist not stated in the record · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796

Button

Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River

Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
The Youthful Vendor, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

The Youthful Vendor

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1757

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery, by Richard Wilson

Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery

Richard Wilson · ca. 1756–57

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Tartelettes (Little Tarts) for the Service des Objets de Desserts (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Tartelettes (Little Tarts) for the Service des Objets de Desserts (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket, by R. & S. Garrard & Co.

Casket

R. & S. Garrard & Co. · 1875 or 1876

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Jasmin (Jasmine) from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Cultivation of Flowers Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Jasmin (Jasmine) from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Cultivation of Flowers Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1821–24

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. 1345 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. 3070732 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-27 10:43 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.