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 the Women at Jesus' Tomb” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:01 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.
Terracotta pyxis (box), by Penthesilea Painter

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Penthesilea Painter · ca. 465–460 BCE

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
Cylindrical Box (Pyxis)

Cylindrical Box (Pyxis)

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for cotton printing: "Le Tombeau de Jean-Jacques Rousseau a Ermenonville."

Cartoon for cotton printing: "Le Tombeau de Jean-Jacques Rousseau a Ermenonville."

Artist not stated in the record · after 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Situla (Bucket for Holy Water)

Situla (Bucket for Holy Water)

Artist not stated in the record · 860–880

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circular Box (Pyxis) with the Women at Jesus' Tomb

Circular Box (Pyxis) with the Women at Jesus' Tomb

Artist not stated in the record · 500s

Public domainThe Met
Tomb Decorations in the Museum of Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Tomb Decorations in the Museum of Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Holy Women at the Sepulchre

Plaque with the Holy Women at the Sepulchre

Artist not stated in the record · early 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Fantasy with Tomb and Ruins, Plate from "Rovine Inventione de Giovan. Loren, Legeay Architet. Intagliate da lui stesso in Luce 1768", by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

Architectural Fantasy with Tomb and Ruins, Plate from "Rovine Inventione de Giovan. Loren, Legeay Architet. Intagliate da lui stesso in Luce 1768"

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle

Tabernacle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1210

Public domainThe Met
A Tomb Monument of Charles IV of Lorraine, by Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714

A Tomb Monument of Charles IV of Lorraine

Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714 · 1664

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pyxis (box), by Meidias Painter

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Meidias Painter · ca. 420–410 BCE

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
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
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1743

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
Virtue Paying Homage at the Tomb of Washington

Virtue Paying Homage at the Tomb of Washington

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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
Tomb Designs, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Tomb Designs

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pyxis (box)

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 420–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Box and cover

Box and cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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. 134 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1437074 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 12:01 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.