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. 14 shown for “Baboon holding an inscribed stela dedicated to Iretherukhef” — 42 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:44 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.
Baboon holding an inscribed stela dedicated to Iretherukhef

Baboon holding an inscribed stela dedicated to Iretherukhef

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plan d’un Petit Batiment projete pour un des Bosquets du jardin de Nymphenbourg, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Plan d’un Petit Batiment projete pour un des Bosquets du jardin de Nymphenbourg

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispiece of Soliman, Second State, by Jacques Callot, French, 1592–1635

Frontispiece of Soliman, Second State

Jacques Callot, French, 1592–1635 · 1620

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist stele

Buddhist stele

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 564 C. E.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Genius of the Painter, by Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691

The Genius of the Painter

Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691 · 1645–47

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Genius of Castiglione, by Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691

The Genius of Castiglione

Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691 · 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Title Page

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase (Plate 12 of a Series), by Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567

Vase (Plate 12 of a Series)

Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 1543

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oil lantern used by oysterman Ira Wright, by R. E. Deitz Company, American, founded 1840

Oil lantern used by oysterman Ira Wright

R. E. Deitz Company, American, founded 1840 · ca. 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispiece, with Dedication to Robert Adam, in Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Frontispiece, with Dedication to Robert Adam, in Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Oil Lamp.

Design for an Oil Lamp.

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 955806 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-27 16:44 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.