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 “Auspicious Emblem with Four Dancing Figures” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:39 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.
Auspicious Emblem with Four Dancing Figures

Auspicious Emblem with Four Dancing Figures

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vishnu

Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · dated August 12, 1105

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Dance in the Country, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

A Dance in the Country

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796

Button

Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eyema byeri (reliquary guardian figure), by Okak-Fang artist

Eyema byeri (reliquary guardian figure)

Okak-Fang artist · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Eagle Dance, Choctaw, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Eagle Dance, Choctaw

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835-1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava

The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Figures, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Figures

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amoghasiddhi, the Transcendent Buddha of the North

Amoghasiddhi, the Transcendent Buddha of the North

Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–early 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze with Playing Children

Frieze with Playing Children

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footed Bowl with Eagle Emblem

Footed Bowl with Eagle Emblem

Artist not stated in the record · mid-13th century

Public domainThe Met
Robe

Robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Macuilcoatl, by Mexica artist(s)

Macuilcoatl

Mexica artist(s) · 1450–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
SOUPIÈRES ET CULLIÈRES., by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

SOUPIÈRES ET CULLIÈRES.

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crucifix with Saint Anthony of Padua, by Kongo artist

Crucifix with Saint Anthony of Padua

Kongo artist · 16th–18th century (pendant figure); 19th century (cross)

Public domainThe Met
Bull Dance, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Bull Dance, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Frieze

Design for a Painted Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Village scene, by Nayarit artist(s)

Village scene

Nayarit artist(s) · 300 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling in Hadrian's Villa, with Nymphs, Centaurs, Stags, and Elephants, by Unknown, Italian

Ceiling in Hadrian's Villa, with Nymphs, Centaurs, Stags, and Elephants

Unknown, Italian · ca. 1785

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. 279 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 282474 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 04:39 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.