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 Painted Roundels” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:35 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 Painted Roundels

Casket with Painted Roundels

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th 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
Booklet with Scenes of the Passion

Booklet with Scenes of the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300 (carving); ca. 1310–20 (painting)

Public domainThe Met
Tray, from a Breakfast Service (Plateau; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Tray, from a Breakfast Service (Plateau; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Playing at Quintain

Roundel with Playing at Quintain

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
tray, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658

tray

Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1757–1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket

Casket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Teapot, from a Breakfast Service (Théière; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Teapot, from a Breakfast Service (Théière; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prodigal Receives His Share (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

The Prodigal Receives His Share (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

Artist not stated in the record · 1532, possibly some 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with the Temptation of Saint Anthony

Roundel with the Temptation of Saint Anthony

Artist not stated in the record · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Two Alternative Designs for Altars, by Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692

Two Alternative Designs for Altars

Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with a Winged Female Deity

Roundel with a Winged Female Deity

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The New and the Old Dispensations

The New and the Old Dispensations

Artist not stated in the record · 1538

Public domainThe Met
Obelisk

Obelisk

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket Plaque

Casket Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1000

Public domainThe Met
"Peintures decoratives du theatre du Franconi dans le grand carre des champs elysees 1833", by Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870

"Peintures decoratives du theatre du Franconi dans le grand carre des champs elysees 1833"

Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sorgheloos ("Carefree") in Poverty

Sorgheloos ("Carefree") in Poverty

Artist not stated in the record · 1510–20

Public domainThe Met
Sala del Thorvaldsen, Rome, by Franz Heinrich, German, 1802–1890

Sala del Thorvaldsen, Rome

Franz Heinrich, German, 1802–1890 · 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket

Casket

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

Public domainThe Met
Plate in Nouveaux livres de peintures de salles et d’escaliers (New Books on Paintings for Rooms and Stairs), by Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752

Plate in Nouveaux livres de peintures de salles et d’escaliers (New Books on Paintings for Rooms and Stairs)

Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quatrefoil Roundel with Arms and Secular Scenes

Quatrefoil Roundel with Arms and Secular Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · 1490–1500

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
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. 383 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. 287109 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-03 19:35 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.