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 “Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 20:05 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.
Tobit Burying the Dead, by Andrea di Lione

Tobit Burying the Dead

Andrea di Lione · 1640s

Public domainThe Met
Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 26/10/35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yuguito (ritual object), by Olmec artist(s)

Yuguito (ritual object)

Olmec artist(s) · 1300–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Celt (votive axe), by Olmec artist(s)

Celt (votive axe)

Olmec artist(s) · 10th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 1/11/70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kneeling bearded figure, by Olmec artist(s)

Kneeling bearded figure

Olmec artist(s) · 900–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Nov 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yuguito (ritual object), by Olmec artist(s)

Yuguito (ritual object)

Olmec artist(s) · 1300–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Nov 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual object, by Olmec artist(s)

Ritual object

Olmec artist(s) · 900–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Oct 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle transformation figure, by Olmec artist(s)

Eagle transformation figure

Olmec artist(s) · 1000–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Sep 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Modified celt-pendant with incised motifs, by Olmec artist(s)

Modified celt-pendant with incised motifs

Olmec artist(s) · 900–600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Nov 1961 to 18 Nov 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait, by Anthony van Dyck

Self-Portrait

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1620–21

Public domainThe Met
Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Viguiera hypochlora (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Nov 1991

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zoomorphic ornament, by Mesoamerican artist(s)

Zoomorphic ornament

Mesoamerican artist(s) · 400–100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Piptocoma hypochlora (S.F. Blake) Pruski

Piptocoma hypochlora (S.F. Blake) Pruski

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a mother and child, by John Linnell

Portrait of a mother and child

John Linnell · 1823

Public domainThe Met
Piptocoma hypochlora (S.F. Blake) Pruski

Piptocoma hypochlora (S.F. Blake) Pruski

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Duck head vessel, by Olmec artist(s)

Duck head vessel

Olmec artist(s) · 1200–900 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Piptocoma hypochlora (S.F. Blake) Pruski

Piptocoma hypochlora (S.F. Blake) Pruski

Artist not stated in the record

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. 33 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 28615 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-04 20:05 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.