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 “Woodville, R. C.” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 03:17 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.
Finches and bamboo, by Emperor Huizong

Finches and bamboo

Emperor Huizong · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Untitled (Men playing cards), by Woodville, R. C.

Untitled (Men playing cards)

Woodville, R. C. · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with the Name and Titles of Vizier Djedkhonsuiufankh

Scarab Inscribed with the Name and Titles of Vizier Djedkhonsuiufankh

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 822–745 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stigeoclonium lubricum

Stigeoclonium lubricum

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Apr 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Stigeoclonium lubricum

Stigeoclonium lubricum

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Apr 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mexican News, by Alfred Jones

Mexican News

Alfred Jones · 1851

Public domainThe Met
Scytonema hofmannii C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault

Scytonema hofmannii C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jan 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Group R

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Group R · ca. 420–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scytonema hofmannii C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault

Scytonema hofmannii C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jan 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Group R

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Group R · ca. 420–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scytonema hofmannii C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault

Scytonema hofmannii C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jan 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Card Players, by Charles Burt

The Card Players

Charles Burt · 1851

Public domainThe Met
Planodes virginicum (L.) Greene

Planodes virginicum (L.) Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

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

Public domainThe Met
Draba brachycarpa (Nutt.) Torr. & A. Gray

Draba brachycarpa (Nutt.) Torr. & A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Zygnema cruciatum (Vaucher) C. Agardh

Zygnema cruciatum (Vaucher) C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of Rebecca, by Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Tetraspora gelatinosa

Tetraspora gelatinosa

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with cover and stand (one of a pair), by John Parker

Cup with cover and stand (one of a pair)

John Parker · 1766/67

Public domainThe Met
Nitella tenuissima

Nitella tenuissima

Artist not stated in the record · May 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double salt, by R. P., London

Double salt

R. P., London · 1620/21

Public domainThe Met
Characium sp.

Characium sp.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1948

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. 13263 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1830590 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-02 03:17 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.