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 “Circular Box (Pyxis) with Scenes from the Infancy of Jesus” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:46 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.
Circular Box (Pyxis) with Scenes from the Infancy of Jesus

Circular Box (Pyxis) with Scenes from the Infancy of Jesus

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Watchcase Lids or Medallions, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for Watchcase Lids or Medallions

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylindrical Box (Pyxis)

Cylindrical Box (Pyxis)

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Jesus

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Jesus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Rectangular Box

Panel from a Rectangular Box

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–early 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altarpiece with the Lives of Jesus, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint John the Evangelist, by Baldassare degli Embriachi

Altarpiece with the Lives of Jesus, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint John the Evangelist

Baldassare degli Embriachi · ca. 1390–1400

Public domainThe Met
Semi-circular Figural Scene with Central Figure Possibly Ascending

Semi-circular Figural Scene with Central Figure Possibly Ascending

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pyxis (box) with lid, by Painter of Philadelphia 2449

Terracotta pyxis (box) with lid

Painter of Philadelphia 2449 · ca. 460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Friezes, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Friezes

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circular Box (Pyxis) with the Miracle of Christ’s Multiplication of the Loaves

Circular Box (Pyxis) with the Miracle of Christ’s Multiplication of the Loaves

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India

Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India

Artist not stated in the record · mid-500s

Public domainThe Met
Birdcage with fishbowl

Birdcage with fishbowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1743

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Shrine with the Virgin and Child

Folding Shrine with the Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Overdoor with Harbor Scene

Overdoor with Harbor Scene

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Hunting Scenes

Panel with Hunting Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Plate, from the Industrial Arts Dessert Service (Assiette Platte, Service des Arts Industriels), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Plate, from the Industrial Arts Dessert Service (Assiette Platte, Service des Arts Industriels)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1821–1827

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. 103 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. 3106611 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-28 05:46 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.