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 “Bronze as of Antoninus Pius” — 63 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:50 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.
Bronze as of Antoninus Pius

Bronze as of Antoninus Pius

Artist not stated in the record · 143–144 CE

Public domainThe Met
Lupinus antoninus Eastw.

Lupinus antoninus Eastw.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Emperor Antoninus Pius, by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Emperor Antoninus Pius

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · 1519–24

Public domainThe Met
Design for a gate, for the reception of Pope Pius VI returning from Germany, in Ancona, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Design for a gate, for the reception of Pope Pius VI returning from Germany, in Ancona

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · May 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble portrait of the emperor Antoninus Pius

Marble portrait of the emperor Antoninus Pius

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 138–161 CE

Public domainThe Met
Lupinus antoninus Eastw.

Lupinus antoninus Eastw.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stucco relief fragment

Stucco relief fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 138–161 CE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Pius VI (1717-1799)

Portrait of Pius VI (1717-1799)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold aureus of Antoninus Pius

Gold aureus of Antoninus Pius

Artist not stated in the record · 141 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Parts of a Coach

Design for Parts of a Coach

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble portrait of the emperor Caracalla

Marble portrait of the emperor Caracalla

Artist not stated in the record · 212–217 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Embroidered Altar Front

Design for an Embroidered Altar Front

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–23

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified, by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified

Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1560–70

Public domainThe Met
Altar Tablet with the Arms of Pope Pius VII, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Altar Tablet with the Arms of Pope Pius VII

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze military diploma

Bronze military diploma

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 149 CE

Public domainThe Met
Altar Tablet with the Arms of Pope Pius VII, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Altar Tablet with the Arms of Pope Pius VII

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Antaeus

Hercules and Antaeus

Artist not stated in the record · probably 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Pius VI (1775-1799)

Portrait of Pius VI (1775-1799)

Artist not stated in the record · 1790-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble portrait bust of Antoninus Pius

Marble portrait bust of Antoninus Pius

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Crucifixion with the Four Evangelists [left]; Saint Bridget [right, above]; Hospital Scene [right, below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Crucifixion with the Four Evangelists [left]; Saint Bridget [right, above]; Hospital Scene [right, below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Benvenuto di Giovanni

Madonna and Child

Benvenuto di Giovanni · ca. 1475–85

Public domainThe Met
Monument to Pope Pius VIII

Monument to Pope Pius VIII

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble portrait of Matidia Minor

Marble portrait of Matidia Minor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 138–161 CE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Pope Pius VIII (1829-1830)

Portrait of Pope Pius VIII (1829-1830)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820-1830

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. 23 matched · 23 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. 2872730 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-28 20:50 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.