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. 20 shown for “Cylinder seal and modern impression: winged horse with claws and horns” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:27 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.
Cylinder seal and modern impression: winged horse with claws and horns

Cylinder seal and modern impression: winged horse with claws and horns

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Gilles-Marie Oppenord, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Portrait of Gilles-Marie Oppenord

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal with cultic scene

Cylinder seal with cultic scene

Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Armchair, by Wenzel Friedrich, Bohemian, 1827–1902

Armchair

Wenzel Friedrich, Bohemian, 1827–1902 · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: demons and animals

Cylinder seal and modern impression: demons and animals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century BC

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Temple Design and Ornamented Gueridons, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Allegorical Temple Design and Ornamented Gueridons

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon

Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Oppenord, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Portrait of Oppenord

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: palmette tree flanked by winged griffin and caprid; figure between them with raised hands; ingot

Cylinder seal and modern impression: palmette tree flanked by winged griffin and caprid; figure between them with raised hands; ingot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Print

Print

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Oppenord (Before Portrait and Lettering), by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Portrait of Oppenord (Before Portrait and Lettering)

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: snake god and deities with hands and feet in the form of snakes, scorpions, and goats

Cylinder seal and modern impression: snake god and deities with hands and feet in the form of snakes, scorpions, and goats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2350–2150 BCE

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
Cylinder seal with three-figure contest scene

Cylinder seal with three-figure contest scene

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Design, by Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840

Arabesque Ornament Design

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: rows of animals; falcons flanking goat, Taweret goddesses

Cylinder seal and modern impression: rows of animals; falcons flanking goat, Taweret goddesses

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th–17th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunter spearing a lion before deity with staff

Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunter spearing a lion before deity with staff

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 17th century BCE (?)

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder seal and modern impression: suppliant goddess

Cylinder seal and modern impression: suppliant goddess

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 17th–16th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder seal and modern impression: suppliant goddesses

Cylinder seal and modern impression: suppliant goddesses

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 17th–16th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 52 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. 1553586 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 01:27 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.