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 with partial chef” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:20 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
Fragment with partial chef

Fragment with partial chef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent van Gogh

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Fragment with partial chef

Fragment with partial chef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot), by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Public domainThe Met
Telemachus and Calypso

Telemachus and Calypso

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paris, by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Paris

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Public domainThe Met
Fragment with chef, by Manufacture Anglaise du Chateau de Sevres

Fragment with chef

Manufacture Anglaise du Chateau de Sevres · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief fragment

Marble relief fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment with chef de piece

Fragment with chef de piece

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–99

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
chef de piece

chef de piece

Artist not stated in the record · 1782–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Leather Hanging(?) with an Erotic Scene

Fragment of a Leather Hanging(?) with an Erotic Scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Lecier Freres

Textile

Lecier Freres · 1790s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Panurge dans I'ile des lanternes, by Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770

Panurge dans I'ile des lanternes

Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770 · 1785–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a terracotta relief

Fragment of a terracotta relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Le demande en marriage, by Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818

Le demande en marriage

Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rim Shard Incised with the Name of Amenhotep II

Rim Shard Incised with the Name of Amenhotep II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company, by Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s

Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company

Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s · ca. 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Group of Vignettes copied from the Vatican Loggias, by Anonymous, French, 18th century

Group of Vignettes copied from the Vatican Loggias

Anonymous, French, 18th century · ca. 1770-80

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment with Unicorn, Deer, Centaur and Lion

Textile Fragment with Unicorn, Deer, Centaur and Lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of Entablature in the Classical Style, by Unknown, Italian

Fragment of Entablature in the Classical Style

Unknown, Italian · ca. 1770–90

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. 504 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 310236 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 23:20 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.