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 “A modern pendant setting holding an inscribed scarab” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:43 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.
A modern pendant setting holding an inscribed scarab

A modern pendant setting holding an inscribed scarab

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plate 7, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 7, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Plate 6, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 6, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Ignatius Loyola with an angel holding a book, by Francesco Bertos

Saint Ignatius Loyola with an angel holding a book

Francesco Bertos · ca. 1722

Public domainThe Met
Plate 2, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 2, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Chitarman

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
"Modern Woodmen of America"

"Modern Woodmen of America"

Artist not stated in the record · patented 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Modern Rome, by Giovanni Paolo Panini

Modern Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1757

Public domainThe Met
The Discovery of America, plate 1 from the "Nova Reperta" (New Inventions of Modern Times), by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Discovery of America, plate 1 from the "Nova Reperta" (New Inventions of Modern Times)

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Hummingbird heads

Hummingbird heads

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
One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of thirteen vertical panels, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of thirteen vertical panels

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Drawings of the Myth of Apollo; Decoration of a Wall over a Mantel, Sala di Apollo, Palazzo Cavina, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Four Drawings of the Myth of Apollo; Decoration of a Wall over a Mantel, Sala di Apollo, Palazzo Cavina, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Broken Eggs

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1756

Public domainThe Met
Vase After the Antique, by Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835

Vase After the Antique

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab With an Image of the Gods Ptah and Sakhmet

Scarab With an Image of the Gods Ptah and Sakhmet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
La Pesche, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

La Pesche

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1749-1761

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
Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ancient Rome, by Giovanni Paolo Panini

Ancient Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Monochrome Painting, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy, by Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729

Design for a Monochrome Painting, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy

Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729 · 1689–94

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. 112 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. 1796597 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-28 12:43 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.