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 “Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of Recumbent Ram” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 04:40 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.
Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of Recumbent Ram

Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of Recumbent Ram

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Ornamental Vase Design

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · ca. 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of Recumbent Ram

Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of Recumbent Ram

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ceiling

Design for a Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Ornamental Vase Design

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738–72

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bell with heads of a ram, a jackal, and a bovine wearing a yoke ending in uraei

Bell with heads of a ram, a jackal, and a bovine wearing a yoke ending in uraei

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Recumbent ram

Recumbent ram

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels, by François Boucher

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels

François Boucher · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Ornament Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 1716-19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of a Recumbent Doe

Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of a Recumbent Doe

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by P. Moithey, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

P. Moithey, French, active 18th century · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze and iron fittings from a cart or chariot

Bronze and iron fittings from a cart or chariot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Char de la Ville, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Char de la Ville

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze model of a cart with farmyard group

Bronze model of a cart with farmyard group

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design with Apollo on his Chariot, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Ornament Design with Apollo on his Chariot

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass ornaments with recumbent deer

Glass ornaments with recumbent deer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1370–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Triumph of Apollo and Aurora, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Triumph of Apollo and Aurora

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585–1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yuguito (ritual object), by Olmec artist(s)

Yuguito (ritual object)

Olmec artist(s) · 1300–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809

Ornamental Vase Design

Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of a Doe

Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of a Doe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Twelve Earrings, by Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century

Designs for Twelve Earrings

Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century · 1865–70

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. 119 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. 7484567 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-05 04:40 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.