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 an Orphrey” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:01 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 an orphrey

Fragment of an orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

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
Fragment of an Orphrey

Fragment of an Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band fragment

Orphrey band fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Orphrey fragment

Orphrey fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey fragment

Orphrey fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band fragment

Orphrey band fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Queen's Face

Fragment of a Queen's Face

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey fragment

Orphrey fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of William Duguid, by Prince Demah Barnes

Portrait of William Duguid

Prince Demah Barnes · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band fragment

Orphrey band fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orphrey

Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band fragment

Orphrey band fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of an Ivory Comb

Fragment of an Ivory Comb

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band fragment

Orphrey band fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mural, by Teotihuacan artist(s)

Mural

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 500–550 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cope, hood and orphrey

Cope, hood and orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey

Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

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. 8280 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. 2881350 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-03 18:01 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.