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 with Angels and Instruments of the Passion” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:33 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.
Yashoda with the Infant Krishna

Yashoda with the Infant Krishna

Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Vignettes with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Vignettes with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Vignette with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Vignette with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Meditation on the Passion, by Vittore Carpaccio

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Vignette with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Vignette with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret, by Andrea da Giona

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret

Andrea da Giona · 1434

Public domainThe Met
Vignette with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Vignette with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Vignettes with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Vignettes with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triptych with the Passion of Christ

Triptych with the Passion of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–85

Public domainThe Met
Vignette with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Vignette with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Booklet with Scenes of the Passion

Booklet with Scenes of the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300 (carving); ca. 1310–20 (painting)

Public domainThe Met
Vignette with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Vignette with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Handle with a Woman Playing the Lute

Mirror Handle with a Woman Playing the Lute

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Vignette with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Vignette with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto

The Adoration of the Magi

Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto · ca. 1340–43

Public domainThe Met
Three Angels with Instruments of the Passion, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Three Angels with Instruments of the Passion

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ, by Master Pertoldus

Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ

Master Pertoldus · 1494

Public domainThe Met
Christ With the Instruments of the Flagillation Attended by Two Angels

Christ With the Instruments of the Flagillation Attended by Two Angels

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650-1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Love Song, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ciborium, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Ciborium

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Fresco in the Dome of the Cathedral in Citta di Castello, by Tommaso Maria Conca, Italian, 1734 – 1822

Project for a Fresco in the Dome of the Cathedral in Citta di Castello

Tommaso Maria Conca, Italian, 1734 – 1822 · 1789–90

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. 545 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3248671 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 02:33 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.