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. 23 shown for “Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of a Doe” — 64 records examined, 13 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 a Doe

Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of a Doe

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

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 Doe

Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of a Doe

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

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
Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of a Doe

Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of a Doe

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century 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
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
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
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
Ornament Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Ornament Design

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament, by Maya artist(s)

Ornament

Maya artist(s) · 3rd–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament, by Maya artist(s)

Ornament

Maya artist(s) · 400–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Public Monument to be Erected on a Paris Square, by Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houël, French, 1735–1813

Design for a Public Monument to be Erected on a Paris Square

Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houël, French, 1735–1813 · ca. 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yoke

Yoke

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Belt plaque in the shape of a kneeling horse

Belt plaque in the shape of a kneeling horse

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

Public domainThe Met
Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 15-17, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frog yoke, by Classic Veracruz artist(s)

Frog yoke

Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 600-900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Mixed Studies near Mt. Hor, Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mixed Studies near Mt. Hor, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Closed yoke, by Classic Veracruz artist(s)

Closed yoke

Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Interior Scene with a Solicitor/ Lawyer Surrounded by Ornament and Names of Parisian Gunmakers, by C. Jacquinet, French, active 1650 – 1660

Interior Scene with a Solicitor/ Lawyer Surrounded by Ornament and Names of Parisian Gunmakers

C. Jacquinet, French, active 1650 – 1660 · 1660

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. 3151 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. 7484577 matched · 40 examined · 12 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.