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 “Bell with head of a bovine wearing a yoke ending in uraei” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:43 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.
Bell with head of a bovine wearing a yoke ending in uraei

Bell with head of a bovine wearing a yoke ending in uraei

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hand-colored albumen portrait of Princess Dagmar

Hand-colored albumen portrait of Princess Dagmar

Artist not stated in the record · 1860-1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bell with heads of a ram, a jackal, and a bovine wearing a yoke ending in uraei

Bell with heads of a ram, a jackal, and a bovine wearing a yoke ending in uraei

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mill by a Stream, Catskill, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mill by a Stream, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August and October 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers

Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers

Artist not stated in the record · 664–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of Magdalene Hendricks and sister in Eastern Star regalia

Photographic postcard of Magdalene Hendricks and sister in Eastern Star regalia

Artist not stated in the record · early 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Rose pink shirt dress and belt designed by Arthur McGee, by Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019

Rose pink shirt dress and belt designed by Arthur McGee

Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019 · mid 20th-late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Cravat end

Cravat end

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1695

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of M. J. Burleigh

Carte-de-visite portrait of M. J. Burleigh

Artist not stated in the record · 1868-1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Blue denim jacket, by Faded Glory, American, founded 1972

Blue denim jacket

Faded Glory, American, founded 1972 · ca. 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Joos van Cleve

Virgin and Child

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Cattle branding iron used by the Bell family

Cattle branding iron used by the Bell family

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nécessaire with watch

Nécessaire with watch

Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
No. 166, Tidy Cart

No. 166, Tidy Cart

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hacha head, by Classic Veracruz artist(s)

Hacha head

Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pink and black floral tent dress, by Chapter Two, American

Pink and black floral tent dress

Chapter Two, American · 1970s-1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ram-headed Scaraboid Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Amun (Amun-Re)

Ram-headed Scaraboid Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Amun (Amun-Re)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bull Sketches, Catskill, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Bull Sketches, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 15-17, 1868

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. 62 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. 7483533 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 10:43 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.