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. 23 shown for “Frieze Fragment” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:54 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Frieze fragment

Frieze fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
A Satyr Drinking Surrounded by Children, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

A Satyr Drinking Surrounded by Children

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1655–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze, by Carey Bros. W.P. Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded 1882

Frieze

Carey Bros. W.P. Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded 1882 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Frieze

Fragment of a Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall and border

Sidewall and border

Artist not stated in the record · 1870–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Frieze

Fragment of a Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze and Cornice Designs, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Frieze and Cornice Designs

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Frieze

Fragment of a Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze and Ornament Designs, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Frieze and Ornament Designs

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze fragment

Frieze fragment

Artist not stated in the record · first half 16th century

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
Frieze fragment

Frieze fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Frieze Designs, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Frieze Designs

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1655–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment from a Frieze with a Meander Pattern and Rosettes

Fragment from a Frieze with a Meander Pattern and Rosettes

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Frontispiece from Frises, Feuillages et Grotesques (Friezes, Foliage and Grotesques), by Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610–1664

Frontispiece from Frises, Feuillages et Grotesques (Friezes, Foliage and Grotesques)

Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610–1664 · ca. 1645

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze Fragment

Frieze Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze in Classical Style, A Villa Upon a Hill, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Frieze in Classical Style, A Villa Upon a Hill

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

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

Fragment of a terracotta architectural tile

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

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

Entablature in the Classical Style

Unknown, Italian · 1770–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze Fragment

Frieze Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Tombeau monumental avec urne funéraire au premier plan (Monumental Tomb with Urn in the Foreground)

Tombeau monumental avec urne funéraire au premier plan (Monumental Tomb with Urn in the Foreground)

Artist not stated in the record · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze fragment

Frieze fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornament, plate 22 from the "Frammenti di ornati per li giovani principianti nel disegno" (Fragments of Ornament for the Young Students of Design), by Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766

Ornament, plate 22 from the "Frammenti di ornati per li giovani principianti nel disegno" (Fragments of Ornament for the Young Students of Design)

Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766 · 1783

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. 248 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. 41299 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-02 07:54 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.