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 “Band with Figures” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:44 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.
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Man's mantle (hinggi)

Man's mantle (hinggi)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King's attendant, by Giuseppe Gori

King's attendant

Giuseppe Gori · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1722

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewish Woman of Algiers, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Jewish Woman of Algiers

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Choir stall panels, by Johann Justus Schacht

Choir stall panels

Johann Justus Schacht · ca. 1723–26, figures 1787

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elderly king

Elderly king

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Maitreya (Mile)

Buddha Maitreya (Mile)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 486 (10th year of Taihe reign)

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th 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
Ceiling Decoration, Teatro Valle, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceiling Decoration, Teatro Valle, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smiling figure (Sonriente), by South central Veracruz artist(s)

Smiling figure (Sonriente)

South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1683

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King's attendant, by Lorenzo Mosca

King's attendant

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornament

Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · possibly late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729), by Unknown

Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729)

Unknown · probably shortly before 1704

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Band with Figures

Band with Figures

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Old Persian Carving in Brass, by Harry Fenn, American, 1845–1911

Old Persian Carving in Brass

Harry Fenn, American, 1845–1911 · 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman from the French Colonies, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Woman from the French Colonies

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Three Designs for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Three Designs for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument

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

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. 35353 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 276219 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 17:44 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.