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. 22 shown for “Chalcedony intaglio: Head of Jupiter Ammon” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:31 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.
Chalcedony intaglio: Head of Jupiter Ammon

Chalcedony intaglio: Head of Jupiter Ammon

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, Urns and Cameo with Sacrifice to Jupiter Ammon, by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

Ornament Design, Urns and Cameo with Sacrifice to Jupiter Ammon

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewish Woman of Algiers, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Jewish Woman of Algiers

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Jupiter and Hebe, Apollo and Terspsichore., by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Jupiter and Hebe, Apollo and Terspsichore.

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chalcedony oval gem

Chalcedony oval gem

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ovis ammon polii

Ovis ammon polii

Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of jewelry

Set of jewelry

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

Public domainThe Met
Deeds of Jupiter, for a Ceiling, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Deeds of Jupiter, for a Ceiling

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus

Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 41–54 CE

Public domainThe Met
Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Torsos, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Torsos

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman from the French Colonies, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Woman from the French Colonies

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Judith with the Head of Holofernes, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1587 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jasper intaglio: Harpocrates riding a lion

Jasper intaglio: Harpocrates riding a lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ovis ammon ammon

Ovis ammon ammon

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carnelian ring stone

Carnelian ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carnelian ring stone

Carnelian ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Gold ring with a carnelian intaglio

Gold ring with a carnelian intaglio

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tureen Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Tureen Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold ring with onyx intaglio

Gold ring with onyx intaglio

Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–early 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ammon Begs the King to Summon his Sister Thamar, by Martin Van Heemskerk, Netherlandish, 1498 - 1574

Ammon Begs the King to Summon his Sister Thamar

Martin Van Heemskerk, Netherlandish, 1498 - 1574 · 1559

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carnelian ring stone, by Aspasios

Carnelian ring stone

Aspasios · ca. 2nd half of the 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Soffits and Vases, Plate 6 from "Cahier de Trophées, Soffites et Vases," Parte IX, Cahier I, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Soffits and Vases, Plate 6 from "Cahier de Trophées, Soffites et Vases," Parte IX, Cahier I

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

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. 55 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. 2882586 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-06 03:31 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.