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. 22 shown for “Wedgwood, English, established 1759” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:16 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.
Teapot, by John Bartlam

Teapot

John Bartlam · ca. 1765–69

Public domainThe Met
Ptolemy II, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Ptolemy II

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and the Lute Player, by Titian

Venus and the Lute Player

Titian · ca. 1565–70

Public domainThe Met
Poppaea Sabina, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Poppaea Sabina

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book, in three parts, by Thomas Sheraton

The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book, in three parts

Thomas Sheraton · 1793–94

Public domainThe Met
Portrait medallion, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Portrait medallion

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pocket watch, by Robert Roskell

Pocket watch

Robert Roskell · 1820–21

Public domainThe Met
Architas, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Architas

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Strainer, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Strainer

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Stolen Kiss, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

The Stolen Kiss

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Flavian Julia Helena, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Flavian Julia Helena

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ancient Rome, by Giovanni Paolo Panini

Ancient Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Charles de Marquetel de Saint-Denis, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Charles de Marquetel de Saint-Denis

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Gerard David

The Annunciation

Gerard David · 1506

Public domainThe Met
Cup, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Cup

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mourning Britannia, by Saint James's Factory

Mourning Britannia

Saint James's Factory · 1751

Public domainThe Met
James II, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

James II

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Modern Rome, by Giovanni Paolo Panini

Modern Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Dish, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Dish

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Theophrastus of Eresus, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Theophrastus of Eresus

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

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

Prusias I

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 14 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 14748 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-02 11:16 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.