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 “Two Birds on a Branch of Tulips with Insects” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 11:49 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.
Bird pendant, by Central Region artist(s)

Bird pendant

Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Two Birds on a Branch of Tulips with Insects

Two Birds on a Branch of Tulips with Insects

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sofa, by Duncan Phyfe

Sofa

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1810–20

Public domainThe Met
Two Brown Birds on Branch with Tulip, Berries, and Insects

Two Brown Birds on Branch with Tulip, Berries, and Insects

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants

Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90

Public domainThe Met
Brown Bird on Branch with Rose, Tulip, and Insects

Brown Bird on Branch with Rose, Tulip, and Insects

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Salesman's sample

Salesman's sample

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Bird with Tulip, Carnation, Butterflies, and Insect

Bird with Tulip, Carnation, Butterflies, and Insect

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Poppy, Insects, and Reptiles, by Otto Marseus van Schrieck

Still Life with Poppy, Insects, and Reptiles

Otto Marseus van Schrieck · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Gray Bird on Branch with Tulip, Snapdragons, and Forget-Me-Nots with Butterfly

Gray Bird on Branch with Tulip, Snapdragons, and Forget-Me-Nots with Butterfly

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flowers in a Grotesque Vase, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia

Flowers in a Grotesque Vase

Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Two Brown-and-Yellow Birds on Branches with Carnations and Insects

Two Brown-and-Yellow Birds on Branches with Carnations and Insects

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-handled Bowl, by Cornelius Kierstede

Two-handled Bowl

Cornelius Kierstede · 1700–1710

Public domainThe Met
Design for Embroidery, Gentleman's Waistcoat Pocket, by Mademoiselle Calva, French, active late 18th century

Design for Embroidery, Gentleman's Waistcoat Pocket

Mademoiselle Calva, French, active late 18th century · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dispatch of the Messenger, by François Boucher

The Dispatch of the Messenger

François Boucher · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds), by Habiballah of Sava

"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Habiballah of Sava · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Plate Design with Pair of Exotic Birds on a Blossoming Branch, by Amédée de Caranza, active Longwy and Bordeaux, ca. 1867 – 1885

Plate Design with Pair of Exotic Birds on a Blossoming Branch

Amédée de Caranza, active Longwy and Bordeaux, ca. 1867 – 1885 · 1875–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Birds, by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi

Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Birds

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi · ca. 1615–18

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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. 2518 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 4539990 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 2026-09-05 11:49 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.