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 “Coin with Gemini Zodiac Sign” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:13 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.
Coin with Gemini Zodiac Sign

Coin with Gemini Zodiac Sign

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1027 AH/1618 CE

Public domainThe Met
Le Printems, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Le Printems

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer Base with Zodiac Medallions

Ewer Base with Zodiac Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · first half 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Clock face with the signs of the zodiac, by Louis-Félix de La Rue, French, 1731 - 1765

Clock face with the signs of the zodiac

Louis-Félix de La Rue, French, 1731 - 1765 · 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flask with Zodiac Medallions

Flask with Zodiac Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century, with additions first half 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page Design for Le Zodiaque Travesti (Farcical Zodiac), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Title Page Design for Le Zodiaque Travesti (Farcical Zodiac)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Gémeaux (Gemini) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service, by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Gémeaux (Gemini) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coin

Coin

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1031 AH/1621–22 CE

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
Coin

Coin

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1028 AH/1619 CE

Public domainThe Met
Album of Headpieces from Charles-François Saint-Lambert’s Les Saisons, Poëme, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Album of Headpieces from Charles-François Saint-Lambert’s Les Saisons, Poëme

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coin

Coin

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1030 AH/1621 CE

Public domainThe Met
FLAMBEAUX A DEUX BRANCHES, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

FLAMBEAUX A DEUX BRANCHES

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coin

Coin

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1028 AH/1619 CE

Public domainThe Met
Thermometer, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Thermometer

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi, by Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi

Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi

Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi · dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE

Public domainThe Met
Apollo, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Apollo

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkwell with Twelve Zodiac Medallions

Inkwell with Twelve Zodiac Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ceiling

Design for a Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coin with Sign of Cancer

Coin with Sign of Cancer

Artist not stated in the record · 1032 AH?/1622–23 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cover for "The World’s Almaniac for 1879", by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

Cover for "The World’s Almaniac for 1879"

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coin with Sign of Leo

Coin with Sign of Leo

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1033 AH/1624 CE

Public domainThe Met
L’Eté, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

L’Eté

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

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. 24 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. 567844 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 2026-08-27 13:13 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.