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 “Fragment from a Two-Sided Sanctuary Screen with Birds Eating Grapes” — 51 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 14:06 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 Two-Sided Sanctuary Screen with Birds Eating Grapes

Fragment from a Two-Sided Sanctuary Screen with Birds Eating Grapes

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

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with Birds in the Papyrus Thicket

Relief with Birds in the Papyrus Thicket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panthers of Bacchus Eating Grapes, by Alexandre François Desportes

Panthers of Bacchus Eating Grapes

Alexandre François Desportes · ca. 1719–20

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment Showing Waterfowl in a Clapnet

Relief Fragment Showing Waterfowl in a Clapnet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2020–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds, by Vittore Gambello

Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds

Vittore Gambello · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Tiraz fragment

Tiraz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1100

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile with Stripes

Textile with Stripes

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pine, Bamboo, Grape, and Squirrel, by Unidentified

Pine, Bamboo, Grape, and Squirrel

Unidentified · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Grape Shears with Grape Vine Handles and Slug, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Grape Shears with Grape Vine Handles and Slug

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: The Story of Lady Wenji, by Unidentified artist

Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: The Story of Lady Wenji

Unidentified artist · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Spoon with Enameled Grapes and Grapevine Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Spoon with Enameled Grapes and Grapevine Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Portrait of Rup Singh", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Govardhan

"Portrait of Rup Singh", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Govardhan · verso: ca. 1615–20; recto: ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Cake Tongs With Caterpillar, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Pair of Cake Tongs With Caterpillar

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Petrus Christus

The Annunciation

Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Public domainThe Met
Dagger-axe (ge 戈) with bird, fragment reworked

Dagger-axe (ge 戈) with bird, fragment reworked

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300-ca. 1050 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spoon with Frog Jumping from Leaf Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Spoon with Frog Jumping from Leaf Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 94 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-07 14:06 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.