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 Figures Carving onto a Tree” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:22 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.
Booklet with Scenes of the Passion

Booklet with Scenes of the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300 (carving); ca. 1310–20 (painting)

Public domainThe Met
Two Figures Carving onto a Tree

Two Figures Carving onto a Tree

Artist not stated in the record · 1758-1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729), by Unknown

Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729)

Unknown · probably shortly before 1704

Public domainThe Met
A Pierced Screen, Urn, a Fountain and Two Basins, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

A Pierced Screen, Urn, a Fountain and Two Basins

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1692–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ancestor figure, by Kambot artist

Ancestor figure

Kambot artist · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Hunt, Personified by Diana, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Hunt, Personified by Diana

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1594–1596

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harlequin, by Höchst Manufactory

Harlequin

Höchst Manufactory · ca. 1750–53

Public domainThe Met
Mixed Studies near Mt. Hor, Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mixed Studies near Mt. Hor, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Testament figures

Old Testament figures

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià, by Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists

Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià

Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sheath for a Cutlery Set, by W G W

Sheath for a Cutlery Set

W G W · 1589

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shoulao, by Chantilly

Shoulao

Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Woman and Tree with Birds Nesting, by Unidentified

Woman and Tree with Birds Nesting

Unidentified · after 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, by Giovanni Battista Foggini

Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany

Giovanni Battista Foggini · ca. 1680–82

Public domainThe Met
Geisha Holding Fish on Platter

Geisha Holding Fish on Platter

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Time (Chronos) Entrusting Cupid to Venus, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727 – 1804

Time (Chronos) Entrusting Cupid to Venus

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727 – 1804 · ca. 1757

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paolo Giordano II Orsini, Duke of Bracciano, by Johann Jakob Kornmann (called Cormano)

Paolo Giordano II Orsini, Duke of Bracciano

Johann Jakob Kornmann (called Cormano) · ca. 1632

Public domainThe Met
PARTIE DE CHASSE, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

PARTIE DE CHASSE

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eyema byeri (reliquary guardian figure), by Okak-Fang artist

Eyema byeri (reliquary guardian figure)

Okak-Fang artist · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Model for Descriptive Geometry by A. Jullien - Representation of a Line (Special Cases), by Jullien, A.

Model for Descriptive Geometry by A. Jullien - Representation of a Line (Special Cases)

Jullien, A. · ca 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gourd Bowl Commemorating Independence from Spain, by Unknown Artist

Gourd Bowl Commemorating Independence from Spain

Unknown Artist · after 1821

Public domainThe Met
L'Eau, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

L'Eau

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782

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. 2537 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1824094 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-28 18:22 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.