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 vertical border” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:28 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.
Madonna and Child, by Vincenzo Foppa

Madonna and Child

Vincenzo Foppa · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Trial-proof for a printed vertical border

Trial-proof for a printed vertical border

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

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
Design for a Printed Vertical Border

Design for a Printed Vertical Border

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illustration for a Book: Troops Advancing toward a City Gate, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Illustration for a Book: Troops Advancing toward a City Gate

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1696–1770

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall and border

Sidewall and border

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Border Designs for the Mortlake "Acts of the Apostles" Tapestries, by Franz Cleyn

Border Designs for the Mortlake "Acts of the Apostles" Tapestries

Franz Cleyn · ca. 1626–36

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
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Project for an embroidered vertical border

Project for an embroidered vertical border

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abduction of a Sabine Woman, by Giambologna

Abduction of a Sabine Woman

Giambologna · model ca. 1579; cast possibly late 16th 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 Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

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
Dragon Wrapped around Saz Leaves

Dragon Wrapped around Saz Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–70

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 Emperor's Carpet

The Emperor's Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th 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
Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso), by Leonardo da Vinci

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)

Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

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
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 Flower Chintz

Trial Proof for a Flower Chintz

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Embroidered Vertical Border

Design for an Embroidered Vertical Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–15

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. 2264 matched · 24 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. 254 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 09:28 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.