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. 12 shown for “Bull's head from column capital” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:07 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

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
Two capitals of columns, with alternative suggestions

Two capitals of columns, with alternative suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Composite Capitals and Bases

Designs for Composite Capitals and Bases

Artist not stated in the record · 1530–1540

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ruins of St. George Church, Lydda (Lod), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Ruins of St. George Church, Lydda (Lod)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 7, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions

Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Candlesticks, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Pair of Candlesticks

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · early 19th century

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

Design for a Candlestick

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Embroidery of the Right Top Part of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for the Embroidery of the Right Top Part of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1785

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

Design for a Candlestick

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gateway, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Gateway

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Podolepis hieracioides F. Muell.

Podolepis hieracioides F. Muell.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Feb 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Two Telamons (Atlantides) and Two Furniture Legs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Designs for Two Telamons (Atlantides) and Two Furniture Legs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1857–59

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 511402 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 01:07 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.