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. 23 shown for “Greenstone polyhedron inscribed with letters of the Greek alphabet” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 14:04 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.
Greenstone polyhedron inscribed with letters of the Greek alphabet

Greenstone polyhedron inscribed with letters of the Greek alphabet

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Letter G of a Pictoral Alphabet: Greek Warfare, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for the Letter G of a Pictoral Alphabet: Greek Warfare

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Faience polyhedron inscribed with letters of the Greek alphabet

Faience polyhedron inscribed with letters of the Greek alphabet

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Monument, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for Monument

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters

Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE–4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for the letters V and X of a Pictoral Alphabet: Victoire/Xystus (Victory in the Xystus), by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for the letters V and X of a Pictoral Alphabet: Victoire/Xystus (Victory in the Xystus)

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters

Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE–4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Carved Inscriptions, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Carved Inscriptions

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Adoration of the Shepherds

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1605–10

Public domainThe Met
Book Ornament of a Classical Ruin with the Medallion Portrait of Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764)

Book Ornament of a Classical Ruin with the Medallion Portrait of Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
Vase After the Antique, by Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835

Vase After the Antique

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)

Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)

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

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze hydria (water jar)

Bronze hydria (water jar)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase After the Antique, by Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835

Vase After the Antique

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Alphabet (Incunabulum page ?), by David Roelands, Dutch, b. 1572

Alphabet (Incunabulum page ?)

David Roelands, Dutch, b. 1572 · ca. 1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Front of a limestone block from the stepped base of a funerary monument, by Phaidimos

Front of a limestone block from the stepped base of a funerary monument

Phaidimos · mid-6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase After the Antique, by Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835

Vase After the Antique

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
"Detail de la base des mats places sur le pont-neuf en Juillet 1838", by Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870

"Detail de la base des mats places sur le pont-neuf en Juillet 1838"

Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
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. 131 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3012699 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 14:04 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.