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 “Writing Box with Design of a Cherry Tree and Waterfall” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 00:24 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.
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Mixed Sketches with Chimneys and Waterfall, Berchtesgaden, Germany, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mixed Sketches with Chimneys and Waterfall, Berchtesgaden, Germany

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rolltop desk, by David Roentgen

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Public domainThe Met
Study for "Rainy Season in the Tropics", by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Study for "Rainy Season in the Tropics"

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1865–1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rolltop desk, by David Roentgen

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Waterfall, by James Henry Moser, Canadian, 1854–1913

Waterfall

James Henry Moser, Canadian, 1854–1913 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing Box with Design of a Cherry Tree and Waterfall

Writing Box with Design of a Cherry Tree and Waterfall

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with a Waterfall

Landscape with a Waterfall

Artist not stated in the record · 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Platter, by W. S. Coleman

Platter

W. S. Coleman · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · March 29, 1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heart of the Andes, by Frederic Edwin Church

Heart of the Andes

Frederic Edwin Church · 1859

Public domainThe Met
Mountain Stream, Mt. Desert Island, Maine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mountain Stream, Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1850–52

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Cranequin (Winder)

Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Cranequin (Winder)

Artist not stated in the record · crossbow, ca. 1575–1650; cranequin dated 1562

Public domainThe Met
Imaginary Landscape with Waterfall, by Thomas Cole, American, b. England, 1801–1848

Imaginary Landscape with Waterfall

Thomas Cole, American, b. England, 1801–1848 · 1870–75

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
A Waterfall, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

A Waterfall

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1855–65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Monument flanked by Fountains

Design for a Monument flanked by Fountains

Artist not stated in the record · 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing Box

Writing Box

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

Public domainThe Met
Spring Festival, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Spring Festival

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels

Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels

Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Imaginary Landscape with a Tower and Palm Tree, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Imaginary Landscape with a Tower and Palm Tree

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1868–75

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. 380 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 4081639 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-06 00:24 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.