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. 13 shown for “Une Moria à Bordiquier (Italie)” — 41 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:49 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.
A Water Wheel in Bordighera (Italy), by Adolphe Appian

A Water Wheel in Bordighera (Italy)

Adolphe Appian · 1875

Public domainThe Met
Une Moria à Bordiquier (Italie)

Une Moria à Bordiquier (Italie)

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Une Moria a Bodiquier (Italie)

Une Moria a Bodiquier (Italie)

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Une fontaine avec une naïade assise sur une conque, by Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789

Une fontaine avec une naïade assise sur une conque

Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789 · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Fountain with Two Dolphins

Project for a Fountain with Two Dolphins

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Une naïade échevelée recule d'efroi à la vue d'un lion, by Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789

Une naïade échevelée recule d'efroi à la vue d'un lion

Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789 · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Reproach (Un Rimprovero)

A Reproach (Un Rimprovero)

Artist not stated in the record · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wolffia arrhiza (L.) Horkel ex Wimm.

Wolffia arrhiza (L.) Horkel ex Wimm.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Design: A German for a Ballet

Costume Design: A German for a Ballet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design: Village in Hilly Landscape, for L'orfanella di Ginevra, ossia L'ombra di un vivo, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design: Village in Hilly Landscape, for L'orfanella di Ginevra, ossia L'ombra di un vivo

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Catafalque, by Baldassare Longhena, 1598–1631

Catafalque

Baldassare Longhena, 1598–1631 · ca. 1631

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Men Standing or Walking in a Public Square of a Town

Six Men Standing or Walking in a Public Square of a Town

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Foliage with a Mask and a Bowl of Fruit (Autre, offrant au milieu d'en bas un mascaron...) Ornamental Foliage with an Old Man and Two Children, by Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567

Ornamental Foliage with a Mask and a Bowl of Fruit (Autre, offrant au milieu d'en bas un mascaron...) Ornamental Foliage with an Old Man and Two Children

Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · ca. 1545

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1790287 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-06 01:49 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.