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 “Ceres” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:20 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.
Ceres, by Augustin Pajou

Ceres

Augustin Pajou · ca. 1768–70

Public domainThe Met
Erica articularis L.

Erica articularis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 17/3/88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceres, by Michel Anguier

Ceres

Michel Anguier · 1700, after a 1652 model

Public domainThe Met
The Seasons Bring Gifts to Ceres and Triptolemus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Seasons Bring Gifts to Ceres and Triptolemus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceres, by Niccolò Roccatagliata

Ceres

Niccolò Roccatagliata · possibly 17th century or later cast

Public domainThe Met
Char de Ceres., by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Char de Ceres.

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceres, by Girolamo Campagna

Ceres

Girolamo Campagna · possibly 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ceres, by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French, 1758–1823

Ceres

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French, 1758–1823 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceres, by Elena Pistrucci

Ceres

Elena Pistrucci · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Ceres asks Jupiter for Return of Proserpina, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceres asks Jupiter for Return of Proserpina

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceres

Ceres

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Terminal Figure of Ceres, by Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917

Terminal Figure of Ceres

Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917 · 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceres, by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Ceres

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1748–50

Public domainThe Met
Bacchus, Venus, and Ceres

Bacchus, Venus, and Ceres

Artist not stated in the record · 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a deity

Marble head of a deity

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ceres, by Unidentified (Roman)

Ceres

Unidentified (Roman) · antique

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceres, by Girolamo Campagna

Ceres

Girolamo Campagna · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ceres

Ceres

Artist not stated in the record · 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Infant Ceres, by Erastus Dow Palmer

Infant Ceres

Erastus Dow Palmer · 1849–50; carved 1853

Public domainThe Met
Ceres, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceres

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Veiled Ceres, by Vincenzo Camuccini

Veiled Ceres

Vincenzo Camuccini · 1795–1844

Public domainThe Met
Vessels and Roundels with Attributes of Bacchus, Flora, Apollo, and Ceres, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Vessels and Roundels with Attributes of Bacchus, Flora, Apollo, and Ceres

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flagon, by Abraham Helmhack

Flagon

Abraham Helmhack · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Dodonaea viscosa Jacq.

Dodonaea viscosa Jacq.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 1979

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. 120 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. 464 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-02 13:20 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.