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 relief of a Roman soldier and a barbarian” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:13 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.
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Triumph of Caesar: The Corselet Bearers

Triumph of Caesar: The Corselet Bearers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze relief of a Roman soldier and a barbarian

Bronze relief of a Roman soldier and a barbarian

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal, by Frederik Christopher Krohn, Danish, 1806 - 1883

Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal

Frederik Christopher Krohn, Danish, 1806 - 1883 · April 18, 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Scene of Roman Soldiers

Scene of Roman Soldiers

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table

Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Public domainThe Met
Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal, by Frederik Christopher Krohn, Danish, 1806 - 1883

Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal

Frederik Christopher Krohn, Danish, 1806 - 1883 · April 18, 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (pendule en cartel), by Jean Godde l'aîné

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)

Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
A Roman Emperor Meeting a Soldier

A Roman Emperor Meeting a Soldier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase clock, by Hermann Achenbach

Longcase clock

Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
A Roman Soldier Fighting Hannibal's Elephant, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

A Roman Soldier Fighting Hannibal's Elephant

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stucco relief fragment

Stucco relief fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
World War II Army Good Conduct Medal awarded to Robert S. Jennings

World War II Army Good Conduct Medal awarded to Robert S. Jennings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by André Charles Boulle

Commode

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
Plates 3, 4, and 5, Illustrations for "Roman Military Punishment" by John Beaver

Plates 3, 4, and 5, Illustrations for "Roman Military Punishment" by John Beaver

Artist not stated in the record · 1725-1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying the bull

Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying the bull

Artist not stated in the record · mid-2nd–early 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Inkstand for the Viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais of Italy, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Inkstand for the Viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais of Italy

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy

Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy

Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
Martyrdom of St. Andrew, by Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875

Martyrdom of St. Andrew

Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875 · 1825–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze portrait of a man

Bronze portrait of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Two Roman Soldiers in Conversation, by Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831

Two Roman Soldiers in Conversation

Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Broncho Buster, by Frederic Remington

The Broncho Buster

Frederic Remington · 1895, revised 1909, cast by November 1910

Public domainThe Met
"Medallion" Pattern Serving Spoon, by William Gale Jr., American, b. 1825

"Medallion" Pattern Serving Spoon

William Gale Jr., American, b. 1825 · ca. 1866

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. 3227 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 4047481 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-01 07:13 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.