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 “Woman's Summer Kimono with Design of Small Crosses” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 04:56 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.
Woman's Summer Kimono with Design of Small Crosses

Woman's Summer Kimono with Design of Small Crosses

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cross-Stitch of Woman in Kimono with Fan, by Ira Blount

Cross-Stitch of Woman in Kimono with Fan

Ira Blount · c. 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Narumi, Specialty Shop with Arimatsu Shibori Cloth, from the Famous Sights of the Fifty-Three Stations series, No. 41, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Narumi, Specialty Shop with Arimatsu Shibori Cloth, from the Famous Sights of the Fifty-Three Stations series, No. 41

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Kimono

Kimono

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Woman Holding a Fan

Woman Holding a Fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Geisha Holding Fish on Platter

Geisha Holding Fish on Platter

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of the Four Seasons - Summer, by Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752

Allegory of the Four Seasons - Summer

Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752 · 1739-1752

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Kimono

Kimono

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered band sampler, by Mary Pots

Embroidered band sampler

Mary Pots · 1648

Public domainThe Met
International Tea Party, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

International Tea Party

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · ca. 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for cotton printing: "Le Tombeau de Jean-Jacques Rousseau a Ermenonville."

Cartoon for cotton printing: "Le Tombeau de Jean-Jacques Rousseau a Ermenonville."

Artist not stated in the record · after 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Asian Female with Parasol, by Bristol Manufacturing Company, American, 1895 - 1915

Asian Female with Parasol

Bristol Manufacturing Company, American, 1895 - 1915 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Book Peddler, by Master of the Canesso Peddler

A Book Peddler

Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

Public domainThe Met
Elevation et Coupe d'une niche avec figures, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Elevation et Coupe d'une niche avec figures

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary of the Holy Cross, by Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575

Design for a Reliquary of the Holy Cross

Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · ca. 1540

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. 167 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2934818 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-07 04:56 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.