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 “Vignette, The Trinity” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:16 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.
Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani

Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Vignette, The Trinity

Vignette, The Trinity

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Trinity, by Bartolomeo di Giovanni

The Trinity

Bartolomeo di Giovanni

Public domainThe Met
Proposed Railroad for Broadway, New York City

Proposed Railroad for Broadway, New York City

Artist not stated in the record · 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Trinity, by José Campeche

The Trinity

José Campeche · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Heracleum lanatum Michx.

Heracleum lanatum Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Poa secunda J. Presl subsp. secunda var. secunda

Poa secunda J. Presl subsp. secunda var. secunda

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vignette on Khonsu's inner coffin lid

Vignette on Khonsu's inner coffin lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
La course au Sanglier (The Boar Hunt), by Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816

La course au Sanglier (The Boar Hunt)

Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816 · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
East Wall, South Side of Nakht's Offering Chapel, by Norman de Garis Davies

East Wall, South Side of Nakht's Offering Chapel

Norman de Garis Davies · 1908–1910; original ca. 1410–1370 BCE

Public domainThe Met
12 1/2c Beer revenue stamp proof single, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

12 1/2c Beer revenue stamp proof single

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Trinity Adored by All Saints, by Spanish Painter

The Trinity Adored by All Saints

Spanish Painter

Public domainThe Met
25c Beer revenue stamp proof single, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

25c Beer revenue stamp proof single

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roman Charity, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

Roman Charity

Hendrick ter Brugghen · 1622

Public domainThe Met
Lomatium macrocarpum (Hook. et al.) J.M. Coult. & Rose

Lomatium macrocarpum (Hook. et al.) J.M. Coult. & Rose

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin, by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)

The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin

Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · before 1402

Public domainThe Met
Plagiomnium venustum (Mitt.) T.J. Kop.

Plagiomnium venustum (Mitt.) T.J. Kop.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia ramondii (Lam. & A. DC.) Margad.

Grimmia ramondii (Lam. & A. DC.) Margad.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuscript Leaf with the Trinity in an Initial G, from an Antiphonary, by Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius

Manuscript Leaf with the Trinity in an Initial G, from an Antiphonary

Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for Printed Cotton: The Four Elements [Les Quatre Elements], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Cartoon for Printed Cotton: The Four Elements [Les Quatre Elements]

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1810–20

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. 915 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. 1186535 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-03 23:16 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.