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 “Halberd of the Bodyguard of Emanuele Filiberto (1528–1580), Duke of Savoy” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:37 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.
Halberd of the Bodyguard of Emanuele Filiberto (1528–1580), Duke of Savoy

Halberd of the Bodyguard of Emanuele Filiberto (1528–1580), Duke of Savoy

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1579

Public domainThe Met
The Great Horse

The Great Horse

Artist not stated in the record · 1505

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Close Helmet for Foot Combat, by the Master of the Castle Mark

Close Helmet for Foot Combat

the Master of the Castle Mark · ca. 1600–1610

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche Evoking the Continent of Asia, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for a Cartouche Evoking the Continent of Asia

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portions of an Armor for Vincenzo Luigi di Capua (d. 1627), by Pompeo della Cesa

Portions of an Armor for Vincenzo Luigi di Capua (d. 1627)

Pompeo della Cesa · ca. 1595

Public domainThe Met
St. Matthew

St. Matthew

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Design: A Halberdier for a Ballet

Costume Design: A Halberdier for a Ballet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Children playing with fruit, by Francesco Ladatte

Children playing with fruit

Francesco Ladatte · ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Costume Design: A Girl in Fantastical Attire for a Ballet

Costume Design: A Girl in Fantastical Attire for a Ballet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Children playing with birds, by Francesco Ladatte

Children playing with birds

Francesco Ladatte · ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Saint Matthew and Saint John, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

Saint Matthew and Saint John

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Wall Tomb, by Avanzino Nucci

Design for a Wall Tomb

Avanzino Nucci · 1590–1610

Public domainThe Met
The Small Horse

The Small Horse

Artist not stated in the record · 1505

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Corner of a Decorated Ceiling, by Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli

Design for the Corner of a Decorated Ceiling

Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Tent of Genghis Khan, for the Ballet "Genghis Khan" by Luigi Henry, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Tent of Genghis Khan, for the Ballet "Genghis Khan" by Luigi Henry

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Designs for the Decoration of a Circular Frieze or Cornice, by Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli

Two Designs for the Decoration of a Circular Frieze or Cornice

Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Halberd, by Unidentified

Halberd

Unidentified · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Altar with a Painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds and God the Father Above, by Giovanni Battista Foggini

Design for an Altar with a Painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds and God the Father Above

Giovanni Battista Foggini · 1672–1725

Public domainThe Met
Halberd, by Unidentified

Halberd

Unidentified · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man Wearing the Order of the Annunziata of Savoy, by French Painter

Portrait of a Man Wearing the Order of the Annunziata of Savoy

French Painter

Public domainThe Met
Tea ceremony water jar with design of Gion Festival halberds, by Style of Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77)

Tea ceremony water jar with design of Gion Festival halberds

Style of Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling with the Coronation of the Virgin and a Variant for the Decoration, by Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling with the Coronation of the Virgin and a Variant for the Decoration

Anonymous, Italian, 17th century · 17th century

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. 309 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. 2983292 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 2026-09-01 09:37 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.