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 “Frieze with Bear Hunt” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:44 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.
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Frieze with Bear Hunt

Frieze with Bear Hunt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600-1617

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Princely Hunt

A Princely Hunt

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze with Hunting Children

Frieze with Hunting Children

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Return from the Hunt, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

The Return from the Hunt

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Frieze with the Miracle of Loaves and Fishes

Fragment of a Frieze with the Miracle of Loaves and Fishes

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

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

Designs for Friezes

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1640–82

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

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1906–1907

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
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
Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent

Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent

Artist not stated in the record · late 1300s or early 1400s

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Robert Graves Co., New York, New York

Frieze

Robert Graves Co., New York, New York · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from a Frieze

Tile from a Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Peacocks and Amorini, by Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915

Peacocks and Amorini

Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from an Inscriptional Frieze

Tile from an Inscriptional Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frieze Decoration with Ermine and Monogram of Anne of Brittany (recto); Design for a Wall Decoration with Coat of Arms of Anne of Brittany (verso), by Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814 – 1879

Design for a Frieze Decoration with Ermine and Monogram of Anne of Brittany (recto); Design for a Wall Decoration with Coat of Arms of Anne of Brittany (verso)

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814 – 1879 · 1830–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from a Frieze

Tile from a Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Mosque Frieze Bearing the Name of a Sultan

Panel from a Mosque Frieze Bearing the Name of a Sultan

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
L’Automne, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

L’Automne

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Mosque Frieze Bearing the Name of a Sultan

Panel from a Mosque Frieze Bearing the Name of a Sultan

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Wild Animal Hunt (frieze)

Wild Animal Hunt (frieze)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570

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. 349 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. 283109 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-03 10:44 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.