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 “Capital with Acanthus Leaves” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:03 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.
Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Public domainThe Met
Mixed Sketches around Jaffa, Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mixed Sketches around Jaffa, Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · possibly 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with Acanthus Leaves, by Anonymous, French, 18th century

Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Anonymous, French, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Sculptures

Architectural Sculptures

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Doge’s Palace, Venice, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Doge’s Palace, Venice

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Gaines et Pieds de table, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Gaines et Pieds de table

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Ornamental Colonette, by Gertrude M. Clarke

Design for an Ornamental Colonette

Gertrude M. Clarke · ca. 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

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
Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Tomb, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Elevation of a Tomb

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
The Column from the Temple of Solomon, by Nicolas Beatrizet, French, active in Rome, ca. 1515–65

The Column from the Temple of Solomon

Nicolas Beatrizet, French, active in Rome, ca. 1515–65 · 1570–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

Title Page

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Capital with Acanthus Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with Acanthus Leaves and Traces of Red Paint

Capital with Acanthus Leaves and Traces of Red Paint

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Petite table à tiroir [et] Petite Chiffonière, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Petite table à tiroir [et] Petite Chiffonière

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

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. 576 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. 280554 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 12:03 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.