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 “Cup with a frieze of gazelles” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:37 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.
Cup with a frieze of gazelles

Cup with a frieze of gazelles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 1st millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cup, by Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864

Cup

Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · ca. 1730–1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze and ceiling, by Virgilio Tojetti

Frieze and ceiling

Virgilio Tojetti · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
ECUELLE ET GOBELETS, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

ECUELLE ET GOBELETS

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Headband with Heads of Gazelles and a Stag Between Stars or Flowers

Headband with Heads of Gazelles and a Stag Between Stars or Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1648–1540 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chalice

Design for a Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th–late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sofa, by Brothers Santi, Rome, Italy

Design for a Sofa

Brothers Santi, Rome, Italy · 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gladiator cup

Glass gladiator cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–80 CE

Public domainThe Met
SAUCIERES ET GOBLETS, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

SAUCIERES ET GOBLETS

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Buffet, by Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701

Design for a Buffet

Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup, by Tiffany & Co.

Cup

Tiffany & Co. · ca. 1893

Public domainThe Met
A Satyr Drinking Surrounded by Children, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

A Satyr Drinking Surrounded by Children

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1655–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup-Hilted Rapier, by Carlo Piccinino

Cup-Hilted Rapier

Carlo Piccinino · ca. 1650–75

Public domainThe Met
Molding and Ornamentation

Molding and Ornamentation

Artist not stated in the record · 1625–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by W. Campbell & Co.

Sidewall

W. Campbell & Co. · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 500–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for the North Portal, Grand Gallery, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for the North Portal, Grand Gallery, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1755

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 500–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Frieze Designs, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Two Frieze Designs

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1657–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 500–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Nine Bands for Bases

Designs for Nine Bands for Bases

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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. 15620 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. 3878832 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 08:37 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.