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 “Casket with Erotes and Animals” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:34 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.
Casket with Erotes and Animals

Casket with Erotes and Animals

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Casket

Casket

Artist not stated in the record · first half 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morgan Casket

Morgan Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Casket with hinged lid

Casket with hinged lid

Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket with Warriors and Dancers

Casket with Warriors and Dancers

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
The Elevation of a Reliquary of a Skull

The Elevation of a Reliquary of a Skull

Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewel casket

Jewel casket

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

Public domainThe Met
Casket

Casket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewelry casket, by Pietro Giusti

Jewelry casket

Pietro Giusti · 1857

Public domainThe Met
Casket

Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket with Figural Imagery

Casket with Figural Imagery

Artist not stated in the record · mid-13th century

Public domainThe Met
Casket, by Frances Basnet

Casket

Frances Basnet · 1654

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket

Casket

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th or early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

Title Page

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1774–88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Casket

Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pyxis (box)

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered panel for casket

Embroidered panel for casket

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt

Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Casket with Four Guardian Animals on the inner walls, accompanied by an epitaph tablet dated 1197

Casket with Four Guardian Animals on the inner walls, accompanied by an epitaph tablet dated 1197

Artist not stated in the record · 1197

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Album of Ornament Prints: Designs for Girondoles, Candlesticks, Candelabras, Chandeliers, Clocks, Barometers, and Boxes (Caskets), by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

Album of Ornament Prints: Designs for Girondoles, Candlesticks, Candelabras, Chandeliers, Clocks, Barometers, and Boxes (Caskets)

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1774–94

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Filigree Casket with Sliding Top

Filigree Casket with Sliding Top

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670

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. 64 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. 2615015 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-27 08:34 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.