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 “Composite Camel with Attendant” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:51 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.
Composite Camel with Attendant

Composite Camel with Attendant

Artist not stated in the record · third quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Oasis at Kadesh Barnea, Jordan, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Oasis at Kadesh Barnea, Jordan

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 22, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Camel

Camel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Box and game pieces, by Julius Goltzius, Dutch, died ca. 1595

Box and game pieces

Julius Goltzius, Dutch, died ca. 1595 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist Attendant

Buddhist Attendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of Desert Mountain and Camels, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketches of Desert Mountain and Camels, Palestine (Israel)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th 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
The Adoration of the Magi, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Magi

Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Dish with the Four Continents

Dish with the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Springtime, by Pierre-Auguste Cot

Springtime

Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Hilltops with Boulders, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Hilltops with Boulders, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Valley of El Arabah, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Valley of El Arabah, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 21, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shaka (Shakyamuni), the Historical Buddha, with Two Attendant Bodhisattvas and Sixteen Arhats

Shaka (Shakyamuni), the Historical Buddha, with Two Attendant Bodhisattvas and Sixteen Arhats

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Dragons

Dragons

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apparition of Christ (recto); Printed Fragment with Jupiter Enthroned with Eagle, from Caraglio's "Martyrdom of Saint Peter and Saint Paul" (verso), by Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

Apparition of Christ (recto); Printed Fragment with Jupiter Enthroned with Eagle, from Caraglio's "Martyrdom of Saint Peter and Saint Paul" (verso)

Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) · 1524–27

Public domainThe Met
Figure and Camel Sketches from Gaza, Palestine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Figure and Camel Sketches from Gaza, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · March 4 and 5, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half of a Prayer Bead with the Crucifixion

Half of a Prayer Bead with the Crucifixion

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Allegories of the Four Continents

Allegories of the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lady with attendant, by Meissen Manufactory

Lady with attendant

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Allegories of the Four Continents

Allegories of the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child with Saints

Giovanni Bellini · ca. 1505–10

Public domainThe Met
Allegories of the Four Continents

Allegories of the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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. 296 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. 249804 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 02:51 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.