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 “Waistcoat front” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 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.
Waistcoat front panels

Waistcoat front panels

Artist not stated in the record · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat fronts

Waistcoat fronts

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–89

Public domainThe Met
Pair of waistcoat fronts

Pair of waistcoat fronts

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–70

Public domainThe Met
Uncut waistcoat front

Uncut waistcoat front

Artist not stated in the record · 1785–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–70

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat fronts

Waistcoat fronts

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat fronts

Waistcoat fronts

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of brocaded silk

Panel of brocaded silk

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat front

Waistcoat front

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panels for a waistcoat

Panels for a waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat fronts

Waistcoat fronts

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gilet

Gilet

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat fronts

Waistcoat fronts

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gilet

Gilet

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat fronts

Waistcoat fronts

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piazza San Marco, by Francesco Guardi

Piazza San Marco

Francesco Guardi · late 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat fronts

Waistcoat fronts

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length of wool Calimanco

Length of wool Calimanco

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat fronts

Waistcoat fronts

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length of wool Calimanco

Length of wool Calimanco

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat fronts

Waistcoat fronts

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

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. 44 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 21681 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 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.