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. 13 shown for “Demons on an Elephant with Nan Brah Dharani, the Earth Goddess, Wringing Water from Her Hair” — 41 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 03:11 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.
Demons on an Elephant with Nan Brah Dharani, the Earth Goddess, Wringing Water from Her Hair

Demons on an Elephant with Nan Brah Dharani, the Earth Goddess, Wringing Water from Her Hair

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

Public domainThe Met
Durga Mahishasuramardini ("Slayer of the Buffalo Demon")

Durga Mahishasuramardini ("Slayer of the Buffalo Demon")

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Goddess Diana Leaning on an Outcropping, by Francesco Brizzi, Italian, 1574 - 1623

The Goddess Diana Leaning on an Outcropping

Francesco Brizzi, Italian, 1574 - 1623 · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Original dies)

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Original dies)

Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Libertas Americana, United States, 1782-3

Libertas Americana, United States, 1782-3

Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apollonius Curing a Young Athenian Possessed of a Demon [above]; Apollonius Raising a Girl from the Dead in Rome [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Apollonius Curing a Young Athenian Possessed of a Demon [above]; Apollonius Raising a Girl from the Dead in Rome [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1597

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint, original dies)

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint, original dies)

Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Overdoor

Overdoor

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Scene with Aurora, by Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704

Allegorical Scene with Aurora

Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704 · 1707–44

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Views of Judith and Holofernes, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Two Views of Judith and Holofernes

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lobby card for Imitation of Life

Lobby card for Imitation of Life

Artist not stated in the record · 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One of the Adams Children, by Unidentified

One of the Adams Children

Unidentified · ca. 1820

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2005310 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-04 03:11 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.