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 “Daniel in the Lion's Den” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:17 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.
Two-Sided Pendant with the Archangel Michael and Daniel in the Lion’s Den

Two-Sided Pendant with the Archangel Michael and Daniel in the Lion’s Den

Artist not stated in the record · 1200 or later

Public domainThe Met
Daniel in the Lion's Den

Daniel in the Lion's Den

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lions in a Mountainous Landscape, by Théodore Géricault

Lions in a Mountainous Landscape

Théodore Géricault · ca. 1818–20

Public domainThe Met
Daniel in the Lion's Den

Daniel in the Lion's Den

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint-Guilhem Cloister

Saint-Guilhem Cloister

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
The Elevation of a Reliquary of a Skull

The Elevation of a Reliquary of a Skull

Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor

Armor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–65

Public domainThe Met
Members, House of Assembly

Members, House of Assembly

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sallet in the Shape of a Lion's Head

Sallet in the Shape of a Lion's Head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80

Public domainThe Met
Lobby card for The Flying Ace, by Boise De Legge, American

Lobby card for The Flying Ace

Boise De Legge, American · 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Study of Oaks at Dennings Point, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of Oaks at Dennings Point

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · September 8, 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Isaac Blessing Jacob, by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Isaac Blessing Jacob

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642

Public domainThe Met
Poster for The Flying Ace

Poster for The Flying Ace

Artist not stated in the record · 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Visit, by Pieter de Hooch

The Visit

Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1657

Public domainThe Met
Revival Banner (Lions and Unicorn, Dan. and Rev.), by Unidentified

Revival Banner (Lions and Unicorn, Dan. and Rev.)

Unidentified · ca. 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia, by John Targee

Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia

John Targee · ca. 1815–17

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, Nouvelles Cheminée faittes en plusieur en droits (New Designs for Fireplaces), by Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752

Title Page, Nouvelles Cheminée faittes en plusieur en droits (New Designs for Fireplaces)

Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Design for Footed Vase, in Vasses de la Maison Royalle de Loo Nouvellement (New Vases for the Royal House of Loo), by Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752

Design for Footed Vase, in Vasses de la Maison Royalle de Loo Nouvellement (New Vases for the Royal House of Loo)

Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

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

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver coffee pot

George III sterling silver coffee pot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Press kit for the film The Flying Ace

Press kit for the film The Flying Ace

Artist not stated in the record · 1926

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. 315 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7483469 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 22:17 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.