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 “Agnus Dei” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:31 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.
Relief of Agnus Dei and Cherub

Relief of Agnus Dei and Cherub

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1140–50

Public domainThe Met
Chalice cover (half)

Chalice cover (half)

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agnus Dei

Agnus Dei

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century (original dated 6th century)

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists

Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1050

Public domainThe Met
Chalice veil

Chalice veil

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crib of the Infant Jesus

Crib of the Infant Jesus

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1743

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with Angels Holding the Veil of Saint Veronica, with a Column

Capital with Angels Holding the Veil of Saint Veronica, with a Column

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–75

Public domainThe Met
Vitex agnus-castus f. latifolia (Mill.) Rehder

Vitex agnus-castus f. latifolia (Mill.) Rehder

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John the Baptist

John the Baptist

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Vitex agnus-castus f. latifolia (Mill.) Rehder

Vitex agnus-castus f. latifolia (Mill.) Rehder

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Agnus Dei

Plaque with Agnus Dei

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Vitex agnus-castus f. latifolia (Mill.) Rehder

Vitex agnus-castus f. latifolia (Mill.) Rehder

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crucifix

Crucifix

Artist not stated in the record · 1125–50

Public domainThe Met
Vitex agnus-castus f. latifolia (Mill.) Rehder

Vitex agnus-castus f. latifolia (Mill.) Rehder

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monstrance or Agnus Dei frame, by Unknown

Monstrance or Agnus Dei frame

Unknown · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Vitex agnus-castus f. latifolia (Mill.) Rehder

Vitex agnus-castus f. latifolia (Mill.) Rehder

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Refectory Bell

Refectory Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Vitex agnus-castus L.

Vitex agnus-castus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a youth and Agnus Dei with arms of Paul V (Camillo Borghese, Pope 1605–21)

Head of a youth and Agnus Dei with arms of Paul V (Camillo Borghese, Pope 1605–21)

Artist not stated in the record · probably early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Vitex agnus-castus L.

Vitex agnus-castus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Youthful Saint John the Baptist, by Domenico Pieratti

The Youthful Saint John the Baptist

Domenico Pieratti · ca. 1625–30

Public domainThe Met
Vitex agnus-castus L.

Vitex agnus-castus L.

Artist not stated in the record

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. 43 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 444 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 05:31 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.