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 Recumbent Doe” — 64 records examined, 9 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 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
Ornament Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Ornament Design

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

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 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
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
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
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

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
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
The Collector of Prints, by Edgar Degas

The Collector of Prints

Edgar Degas · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Design for brooch with round diamond

Design for brooch with round diamond

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810-1820

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
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
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
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
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora, by Leagros Group

Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora

Leagros Group · ca. 510 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
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Door and Doorcase, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Door and Doorcase

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 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. 210 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. 7484577 matched · 40 examined · 9 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.