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. 23 shown for “Figurine in the Form of a Camel Carrying a Palanquin and Two Riders” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:17 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.
Figurine in the Form of a Camel Carrying a Palanquin and Two Riders

Figurine in the Form of a Camel Carrying a Palanquin and Two Riders

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

Public domainThe Met
Desert Landscape en route to Petra, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Desert Landscape en route to Petra, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 19, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Camel

Camel

Artist not stated in the record · first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)

Public domainThe Met
Camels and Riders with Storm-Tossed Ship, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Camels and Riders with Storm-Tossed Ship

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April–March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair), by Alessandro Algardi

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)

Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of Camels and Riders, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketches of Camels and Riders, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February–March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morgan Casket

Morgan Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Mixed Sketches, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mixed Sketches, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February or March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trotting horse, by Giambologna

Trotting horse

Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Public domainThe Met
Desert Caravan, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Desert Caravan, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in Majesty

Virgin and Child in Majesty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of Desert Mountain and Camels, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketches of Desert Mountain and Camels, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February or March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature camelid effigy, by Inca artist(s)

Miniature camelid effigy

Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with Figures and Donkeys, Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Landscape with Figures and Donkeys, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

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

Public domainThe Met
Bedouin Campfire at Night, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Bedouin Campfire at Night

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1868-1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Camel and Rider

Camel and Rider

Artist not stated in the record · mid-to-late 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of a Bedouin Campfire at Night, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketches of a Bedouin Campfire at Night, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February–March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Quatre Parties du monde, by Joseph Gaspard Picart

Quatre Parties du monde

Joseph Gaspard Picart · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Sandy Plain and Mountain Range, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sandy Plain and Mountain Range, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February or March 1868

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. 1039 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 7483886 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-27 05:17 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.