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 “Apollo Lyre” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:26 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.
Apollo Lyre

Apollo Lyre

Artist not stated in the record · 1848–53

Public domainThe Met
Winged Victory Gives Apollo Lyre; Statue of Minerva, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Winged Victory Gives Apollo Lyre; Statue of Minerva

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brown glass oval set in a gilt bronze ring

Brown glass oval set in a gilt bronze ring

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Apollo with lyre and Love, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Apollo with lyre and Love

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carnelian ring stone

Carnelian ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Apollo with Lyre, Fame, Abundance, Beauty and Two Putti on Clouds, Study after Marcantonio Franceschini, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Apollo with Lyre, Fame, Abundance, Beauty and Two Putti on Clouds, Study after Marcantonio Franceschini

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lyre Guitar, by Joseph Pons

Lyre Guitar

Joseph Pons · ca. 1805

Public domainThe Met
Jupiter and Hebe, Apollo and Terspsichore., by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Jupiter and Hebe, Apollo and Terspsichore.

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apollo with lyre, by Tiziano Aspetti

Apollo with lyre

Tiziano Aspetti · 17th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Panel Inscribed "Victoria Augusta", by Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562

Ornament Panel Inscribed "Victoria Augusta"

Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562 · ca. 1507

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo, by Andrea Sacchi

Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo

Andrea Sacchi · 1641

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816

Textile

Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphoriskos (flask)

Terracotta amphoriskos (flask)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 420 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Project for Central Tondo with Apollo, Autumn and Winter, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decorative Project for Central Tondo with Apollo, Autumn and Winter

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass cameo: Apollo

Glass cameo: Apollo

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Page Four from "Quatrieme Livre Contenant Des Montans où Pilastres Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravés par Huquier", by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Page Four from "Quatrieme Livre Contenant Des Montans où Pilastres Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravés par Huquier"

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · after 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of Apollo

Bronze statuette of Apollo

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cupid and Apollo with a lyre, by Paolo Farinati

Cupid and Apollo with a lyre

Paolo Farinati · ca. 1568

Public domainThe Met
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure of Apollo with a Lyre, by Paolo Gerolamo Piola

Standing Figure of Apollo with a Lyre

Paolo Gerolamo Piola · 1666–1724

Public domainThe Met
Apollo on Parnassus

Apollo on Parnassus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone fragment of a lyre or throne

Limestone fragment of a lyre or throne

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840

Title Page

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

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. 74 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. 2046 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-01 13:26 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.