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 “Fragments of Robe-Front” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:59 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.
Fragments of Robe-Front

Fragments of Robe-Front

Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel with Victory Celebration, by William Pitts

Panel with Victory Celebration

William Pitts · 1880

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
Robe worn by Floyd Patterson for World Heavyweight Title against Sonny Liston

Robe worn by Floyd Patterson for World Heavyweight Title against Sonny Liston

Artist not stated in the record · 1962

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
Man's robe

Man's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

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
Boxing robe worn by Sugar Ray Robinson

Boxing robe worn by Sugar Ray Robinson

Artist not stated in the record · 1940-1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 14th 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
White terrycloth robe worn by Muhammad Ali during training at Deer Lake

White terrycloth robe worn by Muhammad Ali during training at Deer Lake

Artist not stated in the record · 1980

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

Portrait of William Duguid

Prince Demah Barnes · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Robe and trunks worn by Denzel Washington as Rubin Carter in The Hurricane, by Aggie Guerard Rodgers, American, born 1943

Robe and trunks worn by Denzel Washington as Rubin Carter in The Hurricane

Aggie Guerard Rodgers, American, born 1943 · 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Part of the shrine of Queen Henhenet

Part of the shrine of Queen Henhenet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Vessel with a Dionysian Scene

Fragment of a Vessel with a Dionysian Scene

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century

Public domainThe Met
Robe

Robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Training robe worn by Muhammad Ali at the 5th Street Gym

Training robe worn by Muhammad Ali at the 5th Street Gym

Artist not stated in the record · 1964

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. 33955 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. 335 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-28 03:59 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.