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 “Wenzel von Olmütz” — 58 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:27 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.
Elevation of a Gothic Pinnacle with a Hexagonal Plan, by Wenzel von Olmütz

Elevation of a Gothic Pinnacle with a Hexagonal Plan

Wenzel von Olmütz · 1490–99

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Silver Standing Cup, by Wenzel von Olmütz, Moravian, active 1481 – 1497

Design for a Silver Standing Cup

Wenzel von Olmütz, Moravian, active 1481 – 1497 · 1498

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant with the Coronation of the Virgin

Pendant with the Coronation of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1500

Public domainThe Met
Carex acuta L.

Carex acuta L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief mounted as a mirror frame, by Wenzel Jamnitzer

Relief mounted as a mirror frame

Wenzel Jamnitzer · ca. 1568

Public domainThe Met
Bromus tectorum L.

Bromus tectorum L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mortar, by Wenzel Jamnitzer

Mortar

Wenzel Jamnitzer · ca. 1550

Public domainThe Met
Bromus lanceolatus Roth

Bromus lanceolatus Roth

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine), by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Bromus briziformis Fisch. & C.A. Mey.

Bromus briziformis Fisch. & C.A. Mey.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket, by Wenzel Jamnitzer

Casket

Wenzel Jamnitzer · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Bromus japonicus Houtt.

Bromus japonicus Houtt.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life, by Georg Flegel

Still Life

Georg Flegel · probably ca. 1625–30

Public domainThe Met
Bromus sterilis L.

Bromus sterilis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pietà, by Carlo Crivelli

Pietà

Carlo Crivelli · 1476

Public domainThe Met
Mentha arvensis L.

Mentha arvensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prince Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich (1773–1859), by Friedrich Johann Gottlieb Lieder

Prince Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich (1773–1859)

Friedrich Johann Gottlieb Lieder · 1822

Public domainThe Met
Juncus atratus Krock.

Juncus atratus Krock.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Palais Paar, 30 Wollzeile, Vienna, Austria, by Isidor Canevale

Boiserie from the Palais Paar, 30 Wollzeile, Vienna, Austria

Isidor Canevale · ca. 1765–72, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Hordeum bulbosum L.

Hordeum bulbosum L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000), by Gustav Klimt

Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000)

Gustav Klimt · 1912–13

Public domainThe Met
Puccinellia distans (Jacq.) Parl.

Puccinellia distans (Jacq.) Parl.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Barnyard Scene, by Anthonie van Borssom

Barnyard Scene

Anthonie van Borssom · ca. 1650–55

Public domainThe Met
Elymus repens (L.) Gould

Elymus repens (L.) Gould

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1909

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. 18 matched · 18 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. 27522 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-03 01:27 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.