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. 20 shown for “Wentworth House” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:49 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.
Wentworth House

Wentworth House

Artist not stated in the record · 1695–1700

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, by William Notman, 8 Mar 1826 - 25 Nov 1891

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

William Notman, 8 Mar 1826 - 25 Nov 1891 · c. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
John Wentworth

John Wentworth

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Soap Bubbles, by Jean Siméon Chardin

Soap Bubbles

Jean Siméon Chardin · ca. 1733–34

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, by Unidentified Artist

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Unidentified Artist · c. 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
East Front of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, by R. Blasson

East Front of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire

R. Blasson · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Viola pensylvanica Michx.

Viola pensylvanica Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of candlesticks, by Charles Petit

Pair of candlesticks

Charles Petit · 1700–1701

Public domainThe Met
Fraxinus americana L.

Fraxinus americana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffeepot, by Sébastien Igonet

Coffeepot

Sébastien Igonet · 1738–39

Public domainThe Met
Writ of execution to collect damages issued by Wentworth Cheswill

Writ of execution to collect damages issued by Wentworth Cheswill

Artist not stated in the record · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer and basin, by Jean Fauche

Ewer and basin

Jean Fauche · 1739–42

Public domainThe Met
Hon. John Wentworth, Mayor Elect of Chicago, from Harper's Weekly, March 17, 1860, by Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910

Hon. John Wentworth, Mayor Elect of Chicago, from Harper's Weekly, March 17, 1860

Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Charles Le Bastier

Snuffbox

Charles Le Bastier · 1760–61

Public domainThe Met
Viola rostrata Pursh

Viola rostrata Pursh

Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan

Fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Table, by Matthias Lock

Table

Matthias Lock · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Chamber candlestick, by Arnaud Gautier

Chamber candlestick

Arnaud Gautier · 1699–1700

Public domainThe Met
Chamber candlestick, by Jean-Baptiste Boullemer

Chamber candlestick

Jean-Baptiste Boullemer · 1732–33

Public domainThe Met
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. 27 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. 32765 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 13:49 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.