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 terracotta fragments of a large jar with reticulated pattern enclosing conventional flowers” — 61 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 05:47 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.
Two terracotta fragments of a large jar with reticulated pattern enclosing conventional flowers

Two terracotta fragments of a large jar with reticulated pattern enclosing conventional flowers

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

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat fragments

Waistcoat fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta vessel fragment with reticulated pattern enclosing conventional flowers

Terracotta vessel fragment with reticulated pattern enclosing conventional flowers

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a valance

Fragment of a valance

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–15th century

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

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Dieric Bouts

Virgin and Child

Dieric Bouts · 1475–99

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Frieze with a Sequence of Roundels Enclosing Rosettes

Fragment of a Frieze with a Sequence of Roundels Enclosing Rosettes

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent van Gogh

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Andrea di Cione (Orcagna)

The Crucifixion

Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) · ca. 1365

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas, by Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara)

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas

Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)

Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)

Artist not stated in the record · 530–510 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th 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. 21 matched · 21 examined · 0 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. 3896109 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 2026-08-29 05:47 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.