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 of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:20 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 of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826), by Camillo Gajani, Italian

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)

Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosaic floor panel

Mosaic floor panel

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Corner Design for Mosaic Floor, by Frederick Krieg, American, b. Germany 1852–1932

Corner Design for Mosaic Floor

Frederick Krieg, American, b. Germany 1852–1932 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a plate with a heavy moulded rim

Fragment of a plate with a heavy moulded rim

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosaic floor with Egyptianizing scene

Mosaic floor with Egyptianizing scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 130–150 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Section of a Marble Mosaic Bathhouse Floor

Section of a Marble Mosaic Bathhouse Floor

Artist not stated in the record · 537/538

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay plate, with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay plate, with a floral design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mihrab (Prayer Niche)

Mihrab (Prayer Niche)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 755 AH/1354–55 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prie-dieu, by Stammer & Breul

Prie-dieu

Stammer & Breul · 1855

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in a Niche, by Jan van Eyck

Virgin and Child in a Niche

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern. Mended with lacquer

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern. Mended with lacquer

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Minbar Doors

Pair of Minbar Doors

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–30

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

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
Corner Design for Mosaic Floor, by Frederick Krieg, American, b. Germany 1852–1932

Corner Design for Mosaic Floor

Frederick Krieg, American, b. Germany 1852–1932 · ca. 1900

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. 882 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. 3889023 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 18:20 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.