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 “Armrest in the shape of an archaic tablet” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 21:01 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.
Armrest in the shape of an archaic tablet

Armrest in the shape of an archaic tablet

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design of Escutcheon and Draped Tablet, by Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650

Design of Escutcheon and Draped Tablet

Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bannerstone, Double-Notched Butterfly

Bannerstone, Double-Notched Butterfly

Artist not stated in the record · 6000–1000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Deacon's chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914

Deacon's chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church

Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bannerstone, Single-Notched Butterfly

Bannerstone, Single-Notched Butterfly

Artist not stated in the record · 6000–1000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Twelve Earrings, by Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century

Designs for Twelve Earrings

Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century · 1865–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), by Princeton Group

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Princeton Group · ca. 540–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tondo with Arms of Cardinal Giulio della Rovere, by Niccolò Martinelli, called il Trometta, Italian, 1565 – 1620

Design for a Tondo with Arms of Cardinal Giulio della Rovere

Niccolò Martinelli, called il Trometta, Italian, 1565 – 1620 · 1566–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora, by Euphiletos Painter

Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora

Euphiletos Painter · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar, by Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650

Design for an Altar

Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1640–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase in the shape of an archaic bronze vessel (gu), by Chen Jinhou

Vase in the shape of an archaic bronze vessel (gu)

Chen Jinhou · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Doors of a prison, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Doors of a prison

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner in the shape of an archaic tripod (ding)

Incense burner in the shape of an archaic tripod (ding)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Baptismal Font

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Amasis Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Amasis Painter · ca. 550–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chair, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Chair

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora (jar), by Leagros Group

Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora (jar)

Leagros Group · ca. 510 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ceiling

Design for a Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Town gate, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Town gate

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kylix: hybrid Siana lip-cup (drinking cup), by C Painter

Terracotta kylix: hybrid Siana lip-cup (drinking cup)

C Painter · ca. 560 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gate of a barracks, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Gate of a barracks

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup in the shape of an archaic vessel with feline dragons

Cup in the shape of an archaic vessel with feline dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Altar Cross Bases; verso, Designs for Five Projects, by Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575

Two Designs for Altar Cross Bases; verso, Designs for Five Projects

Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · 1530–40

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. 436 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. 7484730 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-06 21:01 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.