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 “Funerary Stele with Eagle in Architectural Frame” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 00:17 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.
Funerary Stele with Eagle in Architectural Frame

Funerary Stele with Eagle in Architectural Frame

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

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Royal Catafalque, by Luca Arinelli, Italian, active 1770

Elevation of a Royal Catafalque

Luca Arinelli, Italian, active 1770 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Stele with Architectural Frame

Funerary Stele with Architectural Frame

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

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, eagle, small

Wire frame, eagle, small

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Stele with Cross Medallion below Eagle at Center in Architectural Frame

Funerary Stele with Cross Medallion below Eagle at Center in Architectural Frame

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

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, eagle, large

Wire frame, eagle, large

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle relief, by Toltec artist(s)

Eagle relief

Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, Scottish Rite, double eagle

Wire frame, Scottish Rite, double eagle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele with a family group

Marble grave stele with a family group

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 360 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Wall and Ceiling Decoration with Grotesques and Plants

Design for Wall and Ceiling Decoration with Grotesques and Plants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Stele with Orant Figure in Architectural Frame

Funerary Stele with Orant Figure in Architectural Frame

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

Public domainThe Met
Four Ornamental Frame Designs

Four Ornamental Frame Designs

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Stele with Cross at Center in Architectural Frame

Funerary Stele with Cross at Center in Architectural Frame

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

Public domainThe Met
Album of Designs for Architectural Details and Ornament, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Album of Designs for Architectural Details and Ornament

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Vessel with Thre

Funerary Vessel with Thre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle relief, by Toltec artist(s)

Eagle relief

Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, GAR badge

Wire frame, GAR badge

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Funerary Monument

Design for a Funerary Monument

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment from a Funerary Stele with a Medallion of a Cross and Leaves

Fragment from a Funerary Stele with a Medallion of a Cross and Leaves

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

Public domainThe Met
Six capitals of pillars, with alternative suggestions, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Six capitals of pillars, with alternative suggestions

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painted limestone funerary stele with a woman in childbirth

Painted limestone funerary stele with a woman in childbirth

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Gilles-Marie Oppenord, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Portrait of Gilles-Marie Oppenord

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

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. 83 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. 7464418 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 00:17 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.