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 “Glass plaque fragment depicting a trophy and captives” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:20 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.
Glass plaque fragment depicting a trophy and captives

Glass plaque fragment depicting a trophy and captives

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Trophy Design, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Trophy Design

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque depicting Bernard Palissy, by Sèvres Manufactory

Plaque depicting Bernard Palissy

Sèvres Manufactory · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Trophy Design, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Trophy Design

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bedroom, Hotel de Mailly-Nesle, Paris, by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Design for a Bedroom, Hotel de Mailly-Nesle, Paris

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1770–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass relief fragment

Glass relief fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Artist not stated in the record · 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile depicting Foreigners

Tile depicting Foreigners

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Frieze in Classical Style, A Villa Upon a Hill, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Frieze in Classical Style, A Villa Upon a Hill

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass medallion of winged Victory

Glass medallion of winged Victory

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Three Pedestals, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Designs for Three Pedestals

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque Fragment with Mudfish, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque Fragment with Mudfish

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece, by Pietro Camporese the Younger, Italian, Roman, 1792–1873

Design for a Chimneypiece

Pietro Camporese the Younger, Italian, Roman, 1792–1873 · 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque Fragment with Warrior Chief, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque Fragment with Warrior Chief

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Panel with Bird Cage, by Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562

Ornament Panel with Bird Cage

Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562 · ca. 1507

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque Fragment with Warrior and Attendant, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque Fragment with Warrior and Attendant

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Title Page

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Hunting Scenes

Panel with Hunting Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Crosses a Stream (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Crosses a Stream (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Designs After Architecture Fragments, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs After Architecture Fragments

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nécessaire with watch

Nécessaire with watch

Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Designs After Architecture Fragments, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs After Architecture Fragments

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

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. 62 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2803549 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 2026-08-26 18:20 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.