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. 13 shown for “Fragmentary Relief” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 21:16 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.
Fragmentary terracotta relief with two horses from a vase

Fragmentary terracotta relief with two horses from a vase

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary medallion

Fragmentary medallion

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary terracotta relief of a reclining figure

Fragmentary terracotta relief of a reclining figure

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary Relief

Fragmentary Relief

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Relief

Relief

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

Public domainThe Met
Raised Relief Fragment with Fragmentary Hieroglyphs

Raised Relief Fragment with Fragmentary Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a terracotta relief

Fragment of a terracotta relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary Lotiform Chalice

Fragmentary Lotiform Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–1054 BCE or ca. 945–924 BCE

Public domainThe Met
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
Fragmentary terracotta bowl with tondo

Fragmentary terracotta bowl with tondo

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary relief plaque with falcon

Fragmentary relief plaque with falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary marble votive altar

Fragmentary marble votive altar

Artist not stated in the record · late 3rd–early 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary decree of King Neferkauhor

Fragmentary decree of King Neferkauhor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2103–2101 BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 125 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. 7814 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 21:16 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.