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 “Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:52 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.
Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman’s ceremonial robe

Woman’s ceremonial robe

Artist not stated in the record · first half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Console Table and Wall Bracket Designs, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Console Table and Wall Bracket Designs

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · ca. 1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon jar

Dragon jar

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Vase Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Study for Roundel with Putto, by Pierre-Victor Galland, Swiss, active France, 1822 - 1892

Study for Roundel with Putto

Pierre-Victor Galland, Swiss, active France, 1822 - 1892 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Coronation of the Virgin, and Saints, by Giovanni di Tano Fei

The Coronation of the Virgin, and Saints

Giovanni di Tano Fei · 1394

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Title Page

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1738

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
Teapot, from a Breakfast Service (Théière; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Teapot, from a Breakfast Service (Théière; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Richly Decorated Tunic

Richly Decorated Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 660–870 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

Public domainThe Met
Baptism of St. Martin

Baptism of St. Martin

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

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. 281 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. 1999064 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-03 05:52 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.