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. 23 shown for “Wire frame, broken column, small” — 55 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:39 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.
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken column, small

Wire frame, broken column, small

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wire frame, broken column

Wire frame, broken column

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868), by Marie Denise Villers

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)

Marie Denise Villers · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken column

Wire frame, broken column

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitent Magdalen, by Corrado Giaquinto

The Penitent Magdalen

Corrado Giaquinto · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken column, large

Wire frame, broken column, large

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crescent-Shaped Pendant with Confronted Birds

Crescent-Shaped Pendant with Confronted Birds

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken column

Wire frame, broken column

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken column

Wire frame, broken column

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken column base

Wire frame, broken column base

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature longcase clock with calendar, by Daniel Quare

Miniature longcase clock with calendar

Daniel Quare · ca. 1720–25

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken wheel

Wire frame, broken wheel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird Staff Head

Bird Staff Head

Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken wheel

Wire frame, broken wheel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Joos van Cleve

The Annunciation

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, lyre, small

Wire frame, lyre, small

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified, by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified

Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1560–70

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, lyre, small

Wire frame, lyre, small

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upright Piano, by Friedrich Bernhard Voigt

Upright Piano

Friedrich Bernhard Voigt · 1832

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650

Drawing

Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · 1620-1630

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. 15 matched · 15 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. 108434 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 05:39 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.