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 “Corbel with Fore Portion of Beast with Bone” — 52 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:50 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.
Corbel with Fore Portion of Beast with Bone

Corbel with Fore Portion of Beast with Bone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Chrysops harmani

Chrysops harmani

Artist not stated in the record · 13 May 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corbel with Five Interlaced Hair-Pulling Acrobats

Corbel with Five Interlaced Hair-Pulling Acrobats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Corbel – Orléans, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Architectural Corbel – Orléans

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corbel with a Pair of Beard-Pulling Acrobats

Corbel with a Pair of Beard-Pulling Acrobats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
ÉLEVATION D’UNE CHEMINÉE, by A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768

ÉLEVATION D’UNE CHEMINÉE

A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corbel with Female Figure with Clasped Hands

Corbel with Female Figure with Clasped Hands

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corbel with Animal Mask of Wolf

Corbel with Animal Mask of Wolf

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corbel with Two Men with Legs in the Mouth of Two Beasts

Corbel with Two Men with Legs in the Mouth of Two Beasts

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Brisé fan

Brisé fan

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corbel with Bearded Figure with Pinecone-Like Objects

Corbel with Bearded Figure with Pinecone-Like Objects

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corbel with Two Men with Fingers in Mouths

Corbel with Two Men with Fingers in Mouths

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Cockade fan

Cockade fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Crucifixion

Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Crucifixion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1340–60

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hanging Sacristy Cupboard

Design for a Hanging Sacristy Cupboard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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
Project for a Window Case

Project for a Window Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceremonial Handle (?)

Ceremonial Handle (?)

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pediment with Balcony Above, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Pediment with Balcony Above

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Study of a Nilgai (Blue Bull)", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Mansur

"Study of a Nilgai (Blue Bull)", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Mansur · verso: ca. 1620; recto ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Lantern on a Gondola, by Unknown, Italian

Design for a Lantern on a Gondola

Unknown, Italian · mid-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. 12 matched · 12 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. 2903596 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 20:50 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.