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 a Palm Column” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:06 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 a Palm Column

Fragments of a Palm Column

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2353–2323 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall - fragment

Sidewall - fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Palm Column of Sahure

Palm Column of Sahure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of the Parthenon, Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Fragment of the Parthenon, Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

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
Two capitals of columns, with alternative suggestions

Two capitals of columns, with alternative suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kohl Tube in the form of a Palm Column

Kohl Tube in the form of a Palm Column

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Five marble architectural fragments

Five marble architectural fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 90–92 CE

Public domainThe Met
Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 15-17, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Artist not stated in the record · third quarter of the sixth century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall - fragment

Sidewall - fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Parthenon and Ruined Fragments, Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

The Parthenon and Ruined Fragments, Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kohl Tube

Kohl Tube

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Artist not stated in the record · 460–440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ruins at the Acropolis, Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Ruins at the Acropolis, Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 24, 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Artist not stated in the record · 540–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kohl Tube

Kohl Tube

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1811

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. 1159 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. 3865371 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 11:06 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.