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 “Trial Proof for a Printed Textile” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 10:48 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.
Kettle Drums, by Franz Peter Bundsen

Kettle Drums

Franz Peter Bundsen · 1780

Public domainThe Met
Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bible and Book of Common Prayer, by Robert Barker

Bible and Book of Common Prayer

Robert Barker · ca. 1607

Public domainThe Met
Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature tabard

Miniature tabard

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Public domainThe Met
Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544

Public domainThe Met
Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor

Armor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1450 and later

Public domainThe Met
Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dye-Patterned Silk

Dye-Patterned Silk

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of Helen from a set of The Story of Troy, by Bernard Salomon

The Abduction of Helen from a set of The Story of Troy

Bernard Salomon · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
Trial Proof for a Printed Textile

Trial Proof for a Printed Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Staircase from Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire, by Edward Pearce

Staircase from Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire

Edward Pearce · ca. 1677–80

Public domainThe Met
Trial Proof for Cotton Printing: "Pastoral Scene with Peacocks and Poultry"

Trial Proof for Cotton Printing: "Pastoral Scene with Peacocks and Poultry"

Artist not stated in the record · after 1721

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait Bust of Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Portrait Bust of Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1895

Public domainThe Met
Trial Proof for a Flowered Chintz

Trial Proof for a Flowered Chintz

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scotch Firs, Inveroran, by Sir Francis Seymour Haden

Scotch Firs, Inveroran

Sir Francis Seymour Haden · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Trial Proof for a Flower Chintz

Trial Proof for a Flower Chintz

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Congressional Presentation Sword with Scabbard of Colonel Marinus Willett (1740–1830), by C. Liger

Congressional Presentation Sword with Scabbard of Colonel Marinus Willett (1740–1830)

C. Liger · hallmarked for 1785–86

Public domainThe Met
Trial Proof for a Flower Chintz

Trial Proof for a Flower Chintz

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb of Porsenna, by Sir Francis Seymour Haden

Tomb of Porsenna

Sir Francis Seymour Haden · 1844

Public domainThe Met
Trial Proof for Cotton Printing: "Pastoral Scene with Peacocks and Poultry"

Trial Proof for Cotton Printing: "Pastoral Scene with Peacocks and Poultry"

Artist not stated in the record · after 1761

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. 1242 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. 2162367 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-08 10:48 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.