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. 17 shown for “Two farmers ploughing and harrowing a rice field” — 46 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 15:20 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.
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Two farmers ploughing and harrowing a rice field

Two farmers ploughing and harrowing a rice field

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paccha (ritual vessel), by Inca artist(s)

Paccha (ritual vessel)

Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ruins near Burak, Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Ruins near Burak, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 27, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paccha (ritual vessel), by Inca artist(s)

Paccha (ritual vessel)

Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Public domainThe Met
Plough, Harrow and Feed-box, St. Valery, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Plough, Harrow and Feed-box, St. Valery

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Home of Evangeline – "In the Acadian Land", by Frances Flora Bond Palmer

The Home of Evangeline – "In the Acadian Land"

Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1864

Public domainThe Met
La Maison de Mont Loüis au R. Pere de la Chaise, prés de Ménilmontant (Upper Plate), by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

La Maison de Mont Loüis au R. Pere de la Chaise, prés de Ménilmontant (Upper Plate)

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Odes of the State of Bin, by Ma Hezhi

Odes of the State of Bin

Ma Hezhi · mid-12th century

Public domainThe Met
Hara, Fuji at Daybreak, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi), by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Hara, Fuji at Daybreak, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · ca. 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L’AGRICULTURE

L’AGRICULTURE

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woodblock from Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-na Uchi (Fifty-Three Stations on the Tokaido), by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Woodblock from Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-na Uchi (Fifty-Three Stations on the Tokaido)

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Romulus and Remus: Decorations for Reception Room, Aldini Villa, Montmorency, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Romulus and Remus: Decorations for Reception Room, Aldini Villa, Montmorency

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Letter written by Mrs. Marion Potter to Armand De Rosset and John Potts Brown

Letter written by Mrs. Marion Potter to Armand De Rosset and John Potts Brown

Artist not stated in the record · September 7, 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broadside for an estate sale of "229 Rice Field Negroes"

Broadside for an estate sale of "229 Rice Field Negroes"

Artist not stated in the record · 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ in Limbo (The Harrowing of Hell), by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

Christ in Limbo (The Harrowing of Hell)

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1510

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th 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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3559838 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-29 15:20 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.