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 “Group of B.M. F 308” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:31 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.
Terracotta hydria (water jar), by Group of B.M. F 308

Terracotta hydria (water jar)

Group of B.M. F 308 · ca. 340–330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Isertia laevis (Triana) B.M. Boom

Isertia laevis (Triana) B.M. Boom

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Dec 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lion Ornament, by Asante-Akan artist

Lion Ornament

Asante-Akan artist · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Isertia laevis (Triana) B.M. Boom

Isertia laevis (Triana) B.M. Boom

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Mar 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Group of Boston 00.348

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Group of Boston 00.348 · ca. 360–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Rogersonanthus quelchii (N.E. Br.) Maguire & B.M. Boom

Rogersonanthus quelchii (N.E. Br.) Maguire & B.M. Boom

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1949

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
Tetrapollinia caerulescens (Aubl.) Maguire & B.M. Boom

Tetrapollinia caerulescens (Aubl.) Maguire & B.M. Boom

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Nov 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint Matthew from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint Matthew from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Rogersonanthus quelchii (N.E. Br.) Maguire & B.M. Boom

Rogersonanthus quelchii (N.E. Br.) Maguire & B.M. Boom

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint Peter from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint Peter from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Gordonia chrysandra Cowan

Gordonia chrysandra Cowan

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Isertia laevis (Triana) B.M. Boom

Isertia laevis (Triana) B.M. Boom

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint Paul from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint Paul from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Ternstroemia lineata subsp. chalicophila (Loes.) B.M. Barthol.

Ternstroemia lineata subsp. chalicophila (Loes.) B.M. Barthol.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with the Virgin from an Icon Frame

Medallion with the Virgin from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Gordonia chrysandra Cowan

Gordonia chrysandra Cowan

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint John the Baptist from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint John the Baptist from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Gordonia chrysandra Cowan

Gordonia chrysandra Cowan

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1922 to Oct 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Gordonia chrysandra Cowan

Gordonia chrysandra Cowan

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1922 to Oct 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century)

Virgin and Child

Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century) · ca. 1480–90

Public domainThe Met
Chroomonas americana (B.M. Davis) D.R.A.Hill

Chroomonas americana (B.M. Davis) D.R.A.Hill

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Apr 1912

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. 417 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. 3290997 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-27 21:31 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.