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 “Four fragments of Orphrey Bands Made into a Panel” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:18 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 fragments of Orphrey Bands Made into a Panel

Four fragments of Orphrey Bands Made into a Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 16th or 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band fragment

Orphrey band fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band fragment

Orphrey band fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cheval fire screen, by Thomas Moore

Cheval fire screen

Thomas Moore · ca. 1755–60

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band fragment

Orphrey band fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band fragment

Orphrey band fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble back

Chasuble back

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus, by Gerard David

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus

Gerard David · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an orphrey band

Fragment of an orphrey band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate, by Gerard David

Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate

Gerard David · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band fragment

Orphrey band fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Magi

Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band

Orphrey band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Alternative Designs for a Metal Gate

Alternative Designs for a Metal Gate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight into Egypt, by Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura)

The Flight into Egypt

Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) · 1470s

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1400

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. 865 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. 3870472 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-26 23:18 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.