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. 18 shown for “Workshop of Cambiaso” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 06:44 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.
Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and a Donor, by Workshop of Cambiaso

Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and a Donor

Workshop of Cambiaso · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by L. Cambiaso, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

L. Cambiaso, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armorial dish: Supper at the House of Simon the Pharisee, by Maestro Giorgio Andreoli

Armorial dish: Supper at the House of Simon the Pharisee

Maestro Giorgio Andreoli · 1528

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by L. Cambiaso, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

L. Cambiaso, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by L. Cambiaso, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

L. Cambiaso, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso of a Bodhisattva, by Sahri-Bahlol Workshop

Torso of a Bodhisattva

Sahri-Bahlol Workshop · ca. 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Sleeping Venus and Cupid

Sleeping Venus and Cupid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600-1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tenor Recorder, by Bassano

Tenor Recorder

Bassano · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Two pieces of pyrite from the workshop of C. Edgar Patience

Two pieces of pyrite from the workshop of C. Edgar Patience

Artist not stated in the record · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shawl, by Emile-Frédéric Hébert

Shawl

Emile-Frédéric Hébert · ca. 1860

Public domainThe Met
Needlenose pliers from the workshop of C. Edgar Patience

Needlenose pliers from the workshop of C. Edgar Patience

Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition), by Tilman Heysacker

The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)

Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Short Sword (Yatagan) from the Court of Süleyman the Magnificent (reigned 1520–66), by Ahmed Tekelü

Short Sword (Yatagan) from the Court of Süleyman the Magnificent (reigned 1520–66)

Ahmed Tekelü · ca. 1525–30

Public domainThe Met
Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara, by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara

Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Public domainThe Met
Tondo mirror frame, by Benedetto da Maiano

Tondo mirror frame

Benedetto da Maiano · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Apothecary jar (orciuolo), by Giunta di Tugio

Apothecary jar (orciuolo)

Giunta di Tugio · probably 1431

Public domainThe Met
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. 4711 matched · 24 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. 2858592 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 06:44 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.