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. 23 shown for “Unfinished design for a Waistcoat” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 10:23 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1615–20

Public domainThe Met
Unfinished Design for a Waistcoat

Unfinished Design for a Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1785-1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (one of a pair), by Matthias Lock

Side table (one of a pair)

Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Unfinished Design for a Waistcoat

Unfinished Design for a Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · before 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining room from Lansdowne House, by Robert Adam

Dining room from Lansdowne House

Robert Adam · 1766–69

Public domainThe Met
Unfinished Design for a Waistcoat

Unfinished Design for a Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Unfinished Design for a Waistcoat

Unfinished Design for a Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by Frans Hals

Portrait of a Man

Frans Hals · early 1650s

Public domainThe Met
Unfinished design for a Waistcoat

Unfinished design for a Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baptism of Christ, by Alessandro Algardi

Baptism of Christ

Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Unfinished Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat of Pattern No. 863 of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Unfinished Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat of Pattern No. 863 of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Century Vase, by Karl L. H. Müller

Century Vase

Karl L. H. Müller · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panels for a waistcoat

Panels for a waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design no. 15 for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Design no. 15 for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Design no. 339 for a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Design no. 339 for a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Unfinished cabinet panels

Unfinished cabinet panels

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

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. 185 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2093376 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 2026-09-02 10:23 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.