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 “Fantastic animal with horn” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:20 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.
Fantastic animal with horn

Fantastic animal with horn

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cravat end

Cravat end

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg (1413–1480), by Heinrich Heid von Winterthur

Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg (1413–1480)

Heinrich Heid von Winterthur · dated 1460

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Oil Lamp

Design for an Oil Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crossbow

Crossbow

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1425–75

Public domainThe Met
Fantastical Garden with Musicians, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Fantastical Garden with Musicians

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horn

Horn

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche with Obelisk and Palm, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Cartouche with Obelisk and Palm

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Powder Horn

Powder Horn

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1759

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horn (Oliphant) with Case

Horn (Oliphant) with Case

Artist not stated in the record · horn, 11th–12th century; case, 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Mask (Mascaron) Designs, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Four Mask (Mascaron) Designs

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Toilet casket

Toilet casket

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1715

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Title Page

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker with birds and animals

Beaker with birds and animals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mask (Mascaron) Designs, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Mask (Mascaron) Designs

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer and stand (présentoir), by Martin Gizl

Ewer and stand (présentoir)

Martin Gizl · 1758

Public domainThe Met
Four Mask (Mascaron) Designs, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Four Mask (Mascaron) Designs

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fantastic Goblet

Design for a Fantastic Goblet

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Fantastical Garden with Figures, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Fantastical Garden with Figures

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box decorated with auspicious symbols

Box decorated with auspicious symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque for an Oblong Panel, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Grotesque for an Oblong Panel

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1730–50

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. 641 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 1397245 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 05:20 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.