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 “dressing gown” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 14:23 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Dressing gown

Dressing gown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1841

Public domainThe Met
dressing gown

dressing gown

Artist not stated in the record · 1745 - 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing gown

Dressing gown

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

Public domainThe Met
Dressing gown

Dressing gown

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing gown

Dressing gown

Artist not stated in the record · 1890–92

Public domainThe Met
matchsafe

matchsafe

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing gown

Dressing gown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Giovanni Battista Casti (1721-1803)

Portrait of Giovanni Battista Casti (1721-1803)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing gown

Dressing gown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1819

Public domainThe Met
Figure of a dog, by Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904

Figure of a dog

Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · 1870–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing gown

Dressing gown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Jean Baptiste Moliére (1620-1673)

Portrait of Jean Baptiste Moliére (1620-1673)

Artist not stated in the record · 1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing gown

Dressing gown

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Woman, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Woman

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing gown

Dressing gown

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Old, Old, Story, by Haskell & Allen

The Old, Old, Story

Haskell & Allen · ca 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing gown

Dressing gown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
The Circular Dining Room at Carlton House, London, by Charles Wild, British, 1781 – 1835

The Circular Dining Room at Carlton House, London

Charles Wild, British, 1781 – 1835 · 1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing gown

Dressing gown

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–85

Public domainThe Met
The Cup of Tea, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

The Cup of Tea

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing gown

Dressing gown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
Bathroom and Boudoir Interior, by Jean-Claude Rumeau, French, active 1806 - 1823

Bathroom and Boudoir Interior

Jean-Claude Rumeau, French, active 1806 - 1823 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing gown

Dressing gown

Artist not stated in the record · 1865–75

Public domainThe Met
View of a Morning Room Interior, by Unknown

View of a Morning Room Interior

Unknown · ca. 1820–25

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. 890 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 22623 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 14:23 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.