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 “Wine Drinking in a Spring Garden” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:26 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.
Wine Drinking in a Spring Garden

Wine Drinking in a Spring Garden

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1430

Public domainThe Met
Bacchanal

Bacchanal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring, by Cephas Giovanni Thompson

Spring

Cephas Giovanni Thompson · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Woman Drinking Wine, Maine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Woman Drinking Wine, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · Fall 1876–81

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Gathering

Garden Gathering

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Friezes; Two Caryatids; Seated Figure, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Friezes; Two Caryatids; Seated Figure

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair), by Pietro Bernini

Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)

Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Les Buveurs

Les Buveurs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta psykter (vase for cooling wine), by Oltos

Terracotta psykter (vase for cooling wine)

Oltos · ca. 520–510 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Bacchanale, by Raymond Lafage, French, 1656–1684

A Bacchanale

Raymond Lafage, French, 1656–1684 · ca. 1670–1684

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold Drinking Bowl with Handle

Gold Drinking Bowl with Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass with Galloping Horse

Wine Glass with Galloping Horse

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver Bucket

Silver Bucket

Artist not stated in the record · 600s

Public domainThe Met
Les Chanteurs

Les Chanteurs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine cup, by John Hull

Wine cup

John Hull · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
LA DANSE BACHIQUE, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

LA DANSE BACHIQUE

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with return from a spring outing

Medallion with return from a spring outing

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Vertical Panels, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Designs for Two Vertical Panels

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria

Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria

Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Public domainThe Met
LES JARDINS DE BACHUS, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

LES JARDINS DE BACHUS

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Lydos

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Lydos · ca. 550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Three shirabyoshi drinking sake heated over a fire of autumn leaves, by Hokuga (fl. early 19th century)

Three shirabyoshi drinking sake heated over a fire of autumn leaves

Hokuga (fl. early 19th century) · 1800-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden

The Agony in the Garden

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Menu for AGIP restaurant in Rome

Menu for AGIP restaurant in Rome

Artist not stated in the record · 1960

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. 1190 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 7483326 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-27 21:26 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.