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 “Fragment from a Molding with Acanthus Clusters under Arcades” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:38 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.
Fragment from a Molding with Acanthus Clusters under Arcades

Fragment from a Molding with Acanthus Clusters under Arcades

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Molding fragment

Molding fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment from a Molding with Rosettes and Acanthus Clusters

Fragment from a Molding with Rosettes and Acanthus Clusters

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Square Dining Table on Animal Paw Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Square Dining Table on Animal Paw Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment from a Molding with Rosettes and Acanthus Clusters

Fragment from a Molding with Rosettes and Acanthus Clusters

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Round Table on Animal Hoof-Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for a Round Table on Animal Hoof-Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · February 4, 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment from a Molding with Scrolling Acanthus Leaves

Fragment from a Molding with Scrolling Acanthus Leaves

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Rectangular Dining Table on Ball-Shaped Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for a Rectangular Dining Table on Ball-Shaped Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment from a Molding with Intertwined Vines and Acanthus Leaves

Fragment from a Molding with Intertwined Vines and Acanthus Leaves

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Acanthus Leaf Moldings and Ornament, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Designs for Acanthus Leaf Moldings and Ornament

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuxa Cloister

Cuxa Cloister

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1130–40

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Table, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Table

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment from a Molding with Vines and an Amphora (Vase)

Fragment from a Molding with Vines and an Amphora (Vase)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with the Annunciation

Relief with the Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Public domainThe Met
"Le Jardin d'Armide" [The Garden of Armida], by Desfossé et Karth, French, 1863

"Le Jardin d'Armide" [The Garden of Armida]

Desfossé et Karth, French, 1863 · 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini

Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini

Artist not stated in the record · carved 1000s, assembled 1100s or 1200s

Public domainThe Met
"Le Jardin d'Armide" [The Garden of Armida], by Desfossé et Karth, French, 1863

"Le Jardin d'Armide" [The Garden of Armida]

Desfossé et Karth, French, 1863 · 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Design for Doors, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for Doors

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

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
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Doors Carved in the 'Beveled Style'

Pair of Doors Carved in the 'Beveled Style'

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Molding and Ornamentation

Molding and Ornamentation

Artist not stated in the record · 1625–50

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. 170 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. 2060250 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 15:38 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.