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 panel” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 16:07 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.
Panel

Panel

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of panel

Fragment of panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

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

Cheval fire screen

Thomas Moore · ca. 1755–60

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of panel

Fragment of panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of paneling

Fragment of paneling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel, by Charles Lepec

Panel

Charles Lepec · 1886/87

Public domainThe Met
Les Vues d'Italie (Views of Italy), by Dufour et Leroy

Les Vues d'Italie (Views of Italy)

Dufour et Leroy · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel, by Firm of Ferdinand Duvinage, Paris, France

Panel

Firm of Ferdinand Duvinage, Paris, France · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–18th 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
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Cornice Panel

Fragment of a Cornice Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of ornament for panel

Fragment of ornament for panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

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

Public domainThe Met
Trimming

Trimming

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520–40

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome, by Master of the Munich Marian Panels

Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome

Master of the Munich Marian Panels · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Skirt fragment

Skirt fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th 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. 40475 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2872178 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 2026-09-09 16:07 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.