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 “Eagle Painter” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:24 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.
Terracotta hydria (water jar), by Eagle Painter

Terracotta hydria (water jar)

Eagle Painter · ca. 520–510 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Street Lamppost Letterbox

Street Lamppost Letterbox

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle relief, by Toltec artist(s)

Eagle relief

Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Eagle No. 3 Company Cape, by unknown

Eagle No. 3 Company Cape

unknown · 1850-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle relief, by Toltec artist(s)

Eagle relief

Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Robbing the Eagle's Nest, by Robert S. Duncanson, American, 1821 - 1872

Robbing the Eagle's Nest

Robert S. Duncanson, American, 1821 - 1872 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Eagle, by Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan

Bowl with Eagle

Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000

Public domainThe Met
Penstemon watsonii A. Gray

Penstemon watsonii A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pyxis (box), by Hermitage Painter

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Hermitage Painter · ca. 590–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Castilleja septentrionalis Lindl.

Castilleja septentrionalis Lindl.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe (jug), by Micali Painter

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Micali Painter · ca. 525–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Studies of Two Eagle Heads and One Wing, from Cardinal Bernis' Eagle

Studies of Two Eagle Heads and One Wing, from Cardinal Bernis' Eagle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug), by Pan Painter

Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)

Pan Painter · ca. 470 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Motifs, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Decorative Motifs

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with The Woman of Sestos and the Eagle and arms of the Pucci family, by Fra Xanto Avelli da Rovigo

Dish with The Woman of Sestos and the Eagle and arms of the Pucci family

Fra Xanto Avelli da Rovigo · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Muhlenbergia richardsonis (Trin.) Rydb.

Muhlenbergia richardsonis (Trin.) Rydb.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Liberty, by Chinese Painter

Liberty

Chinese Painter · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Lever pouch padlock, by Eagle Lock Company

Lever pouch padlock

Eagle Lock Company · 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary neck-amphora (jar)

Fragmentary neck-amphora (jar)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 675 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Salix exigua Nutt.

Salix exigua Nutt.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

The Last Supper

Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
Cryptantha sericea (A. Gray) Payson

Cryptantha sericea (A. Gray) Payson

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by French Painter

Portrait of a Man

French Painter

Public domainThe Met
Alopecurus aequalis Sobol.

Alopecurus aequalis Sobol.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 1898

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. 147 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. 30208 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-01 07:24 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.