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. 23 shown for “Capital with a Centaur Battling a Man with Bow and Arrow” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:12 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 a Centaur Battling a Man with Bow and Arrow

Capital with a Centaur Battling a Man with Bow and Arrow

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt Cellar in the Shape of a Sleigh

Design for a Salt Cellar in the Shape of a Sleigh

Artist not stated in the record · 1675-1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armored Cavalryman

Armored Cavalryman

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sea Centaur Battles Sea Monster, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sea Centaur Battles Sea Monster

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arch with Beasts

Arch with Beasts

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
America, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

America

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Design for a painted ceiling, by Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838

Design for a painted ceiling

Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Playing at Soldiers

Playing at Soldiers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules Fighting the Centaurs, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

Hercules Fighting the Centaurs

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1542–48

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796

Button

Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Hunting Scenes

Panel with Hunting Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef

Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
The Emperor Commodus Killing a Leopard, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Emperor Commodus Killing a Leopard

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dejanira being abducted by the centaur Nessos, a man with bow and arrow at right, after Reni, by A. Lovison

Dejanira being abducted by the centaur Nessos, a man with bow and arrow at right, after Reni

A. Lovison · 1800–1840

Public domainThe Met
Lion Hunt, by Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1678 – after 1738

Lion Hunt

Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1678 – after 1738 · 1730–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone (chest), pair with 1975.1.1947

Cassone (chest), pair with 1975.1.1947

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century (with 19th century additions)

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone (chest), pair with 1975.1.1940

Cassone (chest), pair with 1975.1.1940

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century (with 19th-century additions)

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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. 129 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. 2841213 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 07:12 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.