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. 19 shown for “Votive Plaque with White Taras” — 47 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:11 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.
Votive Plaque with White Taras

Votive Plaque with White Taras

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1368–1643

Public domainThe Met
Scenic Plaque, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Scenic Plaque

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive Plaque with White Taras

Votive Plaque with White Taras

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1368–1643

Public domainThe Met
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive Plaque with White Taras

Votive Plaque with White Taras

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1368–1643

Public domainThe Met
Rookwood, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Rookwood

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1903–13

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive Plaque with White Taras

Votive Plaque with White Taras

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1368–1643

Public domainThe Met
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive Plaques with White Taras

Votive Plaques with White Taras

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1368–1643

Public domainThe Met
Framed plaque, by John Turner, Lane End, Staffordshire, England, 1759 - 1780

Framed plaque

John Turner, Lane End, Staffordshire, England, 1759 - 1780 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive Plaque with White Tara

Votive Plaque with White Tara

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Basketball signed by Lusia Harris with wood base

Basketball signed by Lusia Harris with wood base

Artist not stated in the record · 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church

Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Plaque

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Button, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Button

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque for Vietnam War service presented to Major Colin L. Powell, by 1st Infantry Regiment

Plaque for Vietnam War service presented to Major Colin L. Powell

1st Infantry Regiment · September 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque, by Thomas Bentley, English, 1730 – 1780

Plaque

Thomas Bentley, English, 1730 – 1780 · ca. 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sign from segregated railroad station, by Unidentified

Sign from segregated railroad station

Unidentified · ca. 1930s

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 322473 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-28 06:11 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.