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 unknown elements in high relief” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 14:08 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 with unknown elements in high relief

Fragment with unknown elements in high relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Quilt fragment

Quilt fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Eavesdropper", Folio 47r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Maulana Azhar

"The Eavesdropper", Folio 47r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Maulana Azhar · ca. 1430

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile (fragment)

Wall tile (fragment)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with the Annunciation

Relief with the Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield Bearer with the Ducal Arms of Saxony, by Hans Daucher

Shield Bearer with the Ducal Arms of Saxony

Hans Daucher · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Tile fragment

Tile fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729), by Unknown

Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729)

Unknown · probably shortly before 1704

Public domainThe Met
Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card

Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elijah in the Fiery Chariot, by Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs

Elijah in the Fiery Chariot

Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief

Relief

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Tiraz fragment

Tiraz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary relief

Funerary relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Room from a hotel in the Cours d'Albret, Bordeaux, by Barthélemy Cabirol

Room from a hotel in the Cours d'Albret, Bordeaux

Barthélemy Cabirol · ca. 1785, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

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
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–65

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. 1080 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. 7472020 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 2026-09-07 14:08 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.