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 “Game Piece with Zodiac Sign of Cancer or Scorpio” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:44 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.
Game Piece with Zodiac Sign of Cancer or Scorpio

Game Piece with Zodiac Sign of Cancer or Scorpio

Artist not stated in the record · mid-12th 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
Inkwell with Zodiac Signs

Inkwell with Zodiac Signs

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

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

L’Eté

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Public domainThe Met
Thermometer, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Thermometer

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flask with Zodiac Medallions

Flask with Zodiac Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century, with additions first half 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, L'Écrevisse (Cancer) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service, by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, L'Écrevisse (Cancer) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game of Hounds and Jackals

Game of Hounds and Jackals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1814–1805 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Scorpion (Scorpio) from le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service, by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Scorpion (Scorpio) from le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi, by Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi

Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi

Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi · dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE

Public domainThe Met
Suwaru-l-kawakib (Description of the Fixed Stars) by 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (incomplete)

Suwaru-l-kawakib (Description of the Fixed Stars) by 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (incomplete)

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkwell with Twelve Zodiac Medallions

Inkwell with Twelve Zodiac Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Album of Headpieces from Charles-François Saint-Lambert’s Les Saisons, Poëme, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Album of Headpieces from Charles-François Saint-Lambert’s Les Saisons, Poëme

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coin with Sign of Cancer

Coin with Sign of Cancer

Artist not stated in the record · 1032 AH?/1622–23 CE

Public domainThe Met
Clock face with the signs of the zodiac, by Louis-Félix de La Rue, French, 1731 - 1765

Clock face with the signs of the zodiac

Louis-Félix de La Rue, French, 1731 - 1765 · 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game table, by David Roentgen

Game table

David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, October (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes), by Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734

Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, October (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes)

Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734 · 1709–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, June (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes), by Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734

Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, June (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes)

Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734 · 1709–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin with Zodiac Signs and Royal Titles

Basin with Zodiac Signs and Royal Titles

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, April (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes), by Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734

Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, April (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes)

Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734 · 1709–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray

Tray

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page Design for Le Zodiaque Travesti (Farcical Zodiac), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Title Page Design for Le Zodiaque Travesti (Farcical Zodiac)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

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. 76 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. 2922422 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 22:44 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.