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 “Figure of an Asiatic captive” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 12:56 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.
Figure of an Asiatic captive

Figure of an Asiatic captive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and ribbon bar awarded to George Francis Bland, by Thomas Hudson Jones, American, 1892 - 1969

Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and ribbon bar awarded to George Francis Bland

Thomas Hudson Jones, American, 1892 - 1969 · ca. 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monumental Head of a Foreigner

Monumental Head of a Foreigner

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Panel with Bird Cage, by Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562

Ornament Panel with Bird Cage

Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562 · ca. 1507

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a sculptured statue base depicting an Asiatic prisoner

Fragment of a sculptured statue base depicting an Asiatic prisoner

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Triumphal Arch in Honor of the Polish General Skrzynecki, by Josef Georg Kornhäusel, Austrian, 1782 - 1860

Design for a Triumphal Arch in Honor of the Polish General Skrzynecki

Josef Georg Kornhäusel, Austrian, 1782 - 1860 · 1831

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Design of Wall Decoration and Equestrian Monument for Law Courts, Naples, Italy, by Giovanni Battista Natali III, Italian, 1698 - 1765

Design of Wall Decoration and Equestrian Monument for Law Courts, Naples, Italy

Giovanni Battista Natali III, Italian, 1698 - 1765 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Vishnu as Keshava, by Dasoja of Balligrama

Standing Vishnu as Keshava

Dasoja of Balligrama · first quarter of the 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Frieze in Classical Style, A Villa Upon a Hill, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Frieze in Classical Style, A Villa Upon a Hill

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lion Subduing a Prince of Kush

Lion Subduing a Prince of Kush

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing figure, by Teotihuacan artist(s)

Standing figure

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bedroom, Hotel de Mailly-Nesle, Paris, by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Design for a Bedroom, Hotel de Mailly-Nesle, Paris

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1770–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with a fragment of a captive from the palace of Ramesses II

Tile with a fragment of a captive from the palace of Ramesses II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Clavus band

Clavus band

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Man and Woman in an Inn, by Frans Hals

Young Man and Woman in an Inn

Frans Hals · 1623

Public domainThe Met
Two Groups Captives from the Victory of Leo IV over the Saracens, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Two Groups Captives from the Victory of Leo IV over the Saracens

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass plaque fragment depicting a trophy and captives

Glass plaque fragment depicting a trophy and captives

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Minerva and a winged god, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Minerva and a winged god

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
Doors of a prison, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Doors of a prison

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

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. 262 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 2882328 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-05 12:56 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.