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 “Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of a Trussed Duck” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 16:25 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.
Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of a Trussed Duck

Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of a Trussed Duck

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1207–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bracket

Bracket

Artist not stated in the record · 1755–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Descent from the Cross

Plaque with the Descent from the Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Public domainThe Met
Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Artist not stated in the record · 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation peg in the form of the forepart of a lion

Foundation peg in the form of the forepart of a lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2200–2100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Geese and Ducks, by Gruber, Martin A

Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Geese and Ducks

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perfume Vessel in the Shape of Two Trussed Ducks

Perfume Vessel in the Shape of Two Trussed Ducks

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Ducks, by Gruber, Martin A

Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Ducks

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of a Lotus

Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of a Lotus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1207–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Ducks, by Gruber, Martin A

Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Ducks

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of a Haunch

Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of a Haunch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1207–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Geese and Ducks, by Gruber, Martin A

Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Geese and Ducks

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of a Bound Ox

Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of a Bound Ox

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1207–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Ducks, by Gruber, Martin A

Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Ducks

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque in the Form of a Slaughtered Ox

Plaque in the Form of a Slaughtered Ox

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Ducks, by Gruber, Martin A

Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Ducks

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta vase in the form of a duck

Terracotta vase in the form of a duck

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Ducks, by Gruber, Martin A

Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Ducks

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of an Ox Head

Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of an Ox Head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1207–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Virola papillosa Ducke

Virola papillosa Ducke

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Oct 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation deposit plaque of Amenemhat I

Foundation deposit plaque of Amenemhat I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Leather Glove

Leather Glove

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation deposit plaque of Amenemhat I

Foundation deposit plaque of Amenemhat I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Garden, by Jan David Zocher the Younger, 1791–1870

Design for a Garden

Jan David Zocher the Younger, 1791–1870 · 1856

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. 146 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 7483692 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-29 16:25 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.