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 “Cross with Apostles” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:48 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.
Cross with Apostles

Cross with Apostles

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Martyrdom of St. Andrew, by Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875

Martyrdom of St. Andrew

Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875 · 1825–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cross

Cross

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
The Trinity and the Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul, by Gaetano Gandolfi, Italian, 1734–1802

The Trinity and the Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul

Gaetano Gandolfi, Italian, 1734–1802 · 1770–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cross, by George Laskaris (Giorgios Laskaris)

Cross

George Laskaris (Giorgios Laskaris) · 1550–1600

Public domainThe Met
Byzantine-Style Mosaic Necklace with Christ and Twelve Apostles, by Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy)

Byzantine-Style Mosaic Necklace with Christ and Twelve Apostles

Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy) · 1870s-1910s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Icon with the Crucifixion

Icon with the Crucifixion

Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–1050

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Baptismal Font, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Descent from the Cross

Plaque with the Descent from the Cross

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

Public domainThe Met
Apostle Spoon with St. Thomas or St. Matthew Finial

Apostle Spoon with St. Thomas or St. Matthew Finial

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1661

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva (Maitreya) with crossed ankles

Bodhisattva (Maitreya) with crossed ankles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 470–80

Public domainThe Met
Two Apostles, by Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705

Two Apostles

Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Saint Andrew and Saint Thomas, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

Saint Andrew and Saint Thomas

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Saint Philip and Saint James Major, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

Saint Philip and Saint James Major

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Stars, by Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond Delacroix)

Landscape with Stars

Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond Delacroix) · ca. 1905–1908

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Apostles from Retable

Six Apostles from Retable

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Three Apostles, by Federico Zuccaro, Italian, 1542 – 1609

Three Apostles

Federico Zuccaro, Italian, 1542 – 1609 · ca. 1540–1609

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross), by Northern Highlands artist

Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)

Northern Highlands artist · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1715

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. 4717 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 265275 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 21:48 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.