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 “Architectural Panel with Two Kala Heads” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 11:13 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.
Architectural Panel with Two Kala Heads

Architectural Panel with Two Kala Heads

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Vertical Panels, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Designs for Two Vertical Panels

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Six capitals of pillars, with alternative suggestions, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Six capitals of pillars, with alternative suggestions

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Horse Heads

Panel with Horse Heads

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Door and Doorcase, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Door and Doorcase

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a panel with a head in front of two crossed thyrsi

Design for a panel with a head in front of two crossed thyrsi

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Projects for Painted Grotesque Decorations of a Ceiling

Two Projects for Painted Grotesque Decorations of a Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Panel with Two Griffins Drinking from a Cup

Relief Panel with Two Griffins Drinking from a Cup

Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar Mensa, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Design for an Altar Mensa

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1764–66

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome, by Master of the Munich Marian Panels

Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome

Master of the Munich Marian Panels · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decoration of a Panel, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Decoration of a Panel

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One of Two Doors with Ironwork

One of Two Doors with Ironwork

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the East Portal, Grand Gallery, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for the East Portal, Grand Gallery, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1755

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with striding lion

Panel with striding lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 604–562 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two capitals of columns, with alternative suggestions

Two capitals of columns, with alternative suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural woodwork and paneling, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Architectural woodwork and paneling

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar Mensa, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Design for an Altar Mensa

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1764–66

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffin of Khnumnakht

Coffin of Khnumnakht

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Baptismal Font, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feathered panel, by Wari artist(s)

Feathered panel

Wari artist(s) · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Three Graces, by Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797

Three Graces

Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797 · 1803

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. 1539 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. 328409 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 2026-09-05 11:13 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.