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. 15 shown for “Bowl Lyre” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 09:43 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.
Bowl Lyre

Bowl Lyre

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Danaë Painter

Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Danaë Painter · ca. 460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Candlesticks

Two Candlesticks

Artist not stated in the record · 1625–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Sided Plaque with Gazelles

Two-Sided Plaque with Gazelles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Set of Silver Tableware, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Furniture and Ornament, by Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840

Designs for Furniture and Ornament

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Candlestick with a Clock, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Candlestick with a Clock

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchus, Apollo and Mnemosine; Minerva with Trophies, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Bacchus, Apollo and Mnemosine; Minerva with Trophies

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1798–1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Twenty-Four Putti, Decoration for the Dinning Room, Villa Aldini, Montmorency, France, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Twenty-Four Putti, Decoration for the Dinning Room, Villa Aldini, Montmorency, France

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812–13

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Women Riding Sea Centaurs, Villa Aldini, Montmorency, France, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Women Riding Sea Centaurs, Villa Aldini, Montmorency, France

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Ceiling Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Ceiling Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monument for an Accademia della Pace, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Monument for an Accademia della Pace

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

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. 43 matched · 24 examined · 21 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 27713 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 09:43 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.