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. 22 shown for “Funerary Stele with Wheel Pattern” — 50 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:29 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 Wheel Pattern

Funerary Stele with Wheel Pattern

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulchral (Funerary) Wall Mounted Monument, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Design for a Sepulchral (Funerary) Wall Mounted Monument

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

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
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Stele with Two Lions and Circle Pattern within a Niche

Funerary Stele with Two Lions and Circle Pattern within a Niche

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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
Collar

Collar

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble capital and finial in the form of a sphinx

Marble capital and finial in the form of a sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Towel fragment

Towel fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with trumpeter, by Maya artist(s)

Plate with trumpeter

Maya artist(s) · 700–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with throne scene, by Chamá artist(s)

Vessel with throne scene

Chamá artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken wheel

Wire frame, broken wheel

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a kouros (youth)

Marble statue of a kouros (youth)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 590–580 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1450

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with mythological scene, by Metropolitan Painter

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1450

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spouted jar

Spouted jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken wheel

Wire frame, broken wheel

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wire frame, Rotary International emblem

Wire frame, Rotary International emblem

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 254600 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 16:29 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.