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 “Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:51 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.
Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees

Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid- to late 3rd millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783

Ornamental Vase Design

Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

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
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta vessel fragment with three bands and a scale pattern

Terracotta vessel fragment with three bands and a scale pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Magi

Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–45

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
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809

Ornamental Vase Design

Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pithoid jar

Terracotta pithoid jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase Carpet

Vase Carpet

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

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783

Title Page

Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Title Page

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1744–56

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

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

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

Virgin and Child

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Etui Designs, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Etui Designs

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

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. 147 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3147719 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-27 08:51 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.