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 Playing Children” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:25 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.
Bowl with children in a garden

Bowl with children in a garden

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze with Playing Children

Frieze with Playing Children

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Children and Satyr Children Sporting with a Goat, by Clodion (Claude Michel)

Children and Satyr Children Sporting with a Goat

Clodion (Claude Michel) · ca. 1781

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Frame; verso: Frieze with Playing Children

Decorative Frame; verso: Frieze with Playing Children

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Frieze with Merman Playing Musical Instruments

Architectural Frieze with Merman Playing Musical Instruments

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze with Dancing Children

Frieze with Dancing Children

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace

Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Frieze

Design for a Painted Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Children Teasing a Cat, by Annibale Carracci

Two Children Teasing a Cat

Annibale Carracci

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by M.H. Birge & Sons Co., 1834

Frieze

M.H. Birge & Sons Co., 1834 · 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Frieze with Hunting Children

Frieze with Hunting Children

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Children and Satyr Children with a Pantheress and Her Cubs, by Clodion (Claude Michel)

Children and Satyr Children with a Pantheress and Her Cubs

Clodion (Claude Michel) · ca. 1781

Public domainThe Met
Frieze with Children, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Frieze with Children

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frieze with the Allegory of Music, by Piat Joseph Sauvage, French, 1744 - 1818

Design for a Frieze with the Allegory of Music

Piat Joseph Sauvage, French, 1744 - 1818 · 1785-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcophagus with Scenes from the Lives of Saint Peter and Christ

Sarcophagus with Scenes from the Lives of Saint Peter and Christ

Artist not stated in the record · early 300s, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Printed Certifiate of a Religious Ceremony for Children, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Design for a Printed Certifiate of a Religious Ceremony for Children

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Children in Garden

Dish with Children in Garden

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
The Froebel, by Wm. Campbell Wall Paper Company, 1872

The Froebel

Wm. Campbell Wall Paper Company, 1872 · 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Liberty Paper & Bag Co.

Frieze

Liberty Paper & Bag Co. · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket with Erotes and Animals

Casket with Erotes and Animals

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup, by Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864

Cup

Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · ca. 1730–1740

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. 470 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 257047 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 06:25 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.