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. 17 shown for “Four Gospels in Armenian” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:53 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.
Four Gospels in Armenian

Four Gospels in Armenian

Artist not stated in the record · 1434/35

Public domainThe Met
The Armenian Bridge, Near St. Thomas's Mount, Madras, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

The Armenian Bridge, Near St. Thomas's Mount, Madras, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four miniatures of the life of Christ from a gospel book of 1311 (Presentation, Baptism, Transfiguration, Entry into Jerusalem), by T'oros the Deacon

Four miniatures of the life of Christ from a gospel book of 1311 (Presentation, Baptism, Transfiguration, Entry into Jerusalem)

T'oros the Deacon · 1311

Public domainThe Met
Armenian Girl of Pera, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Armenian Girl of Pera

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armenian Manuscript Bifolium, by Illuminator Minas (?)

Armenian Manuscript Bifolium

Illuminator Minas (?) · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Sophi, an Armenian of Brusa, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Sophi, an Armenian of Brusa

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of the Gospels, by Northern Highlands artist

Book of the Gospels

Northern Highlands artist · late 14th–early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Armenian Girl of Constantinople, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Armenian Girl of Constantinople

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lectern for the Reading of the Gospels with the Eagle of Saint John the Evangelist, by Giovanni Pisano

Lectern for the Reading of the Gospels with the Eagle of Saint John the Evangelist

Giovanni Pisano · ca. 1301, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Armenian Pilgrim/Turk Pilgrim, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Armenian Pilgrim/Turk Pilgrim

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary

Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Leaf from a Gospel Book with Four Standing Evangelists

Leaf from a Gospel Book with Four Standing Evangelists

Artist not stated in the record · 1290–1330

Public domainThe Met
Chasse of Champagnat

Chasse of Champagnat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists

Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1050

Public domainThe Met
Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Four Evangelists

Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Four Evangelists

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1100

Public domainThe Met
Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Four Evangelists

Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Four Evangelists

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 133 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. 7460942 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:53 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.