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 “Half Mask (Ho-Ate) with Gorget” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:10 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.
Half Mask (Ho-Ate) with Gorget

Half Mask (Ho-Ate) with Gorget

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615–1868

Public domainThe Met
Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions

Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask (Ho-ate) with Gorget

Mask (Ho-ate) with Gorget

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615–1868

Public domainThe Met
Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chin Mask (Ho-ate) with Gorget

Chin Mask (Ho-ate) with Gorget

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615–1868

Public domainThe Met
Burgermeister

Burgermeister

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chin Mask (Ho-ate) with Gorget

Chin Mask (Ho-ate) with Gorget

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615–1868

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Details and Figure Study, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Architectural Details and Figure Study

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1760–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chin Mask (Ho-ate) with Gorget

Chin Mask (Ho-ate) with Gorget

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ceiling

Design for a Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762

Ornamental Vase Design

Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half Mask (Ho-ate) with Neck Guard, by Myōchin Munetomo

Half Mask (Ho-ate) with Neck Guard

Myōchin Munetomo · dated January 1730

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Decoration, Teatro Valle, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceiling Decoration, Teatro Valle, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half Mask (Menpō) with Gorget

Half Mask (Menpō) with Gorget

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Frame; verso: Frieze with Playing Children

Decorative Frame; verso: Frieze with Playing Children

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half Mask (Menpō) with Gorget, by Zenshō Fujiwara

Half Mask (Menpō) with Gorget

Zenshō Fujiwara · ca. 1615–1868

Public domainThe Met
Louisville & Nashville mail car model

Louisville & Nashville mail car model

Artist not stated in the record · 1914-1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half Mask (Menpō) with Gorget

Half Mask (Menpō) with Gorget

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615–1868

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ceiling Decoration, by Giuseppe Maria Rolli, Italian, 1645 - 1727

Design for a Ceiling Decoration

Giuseppe Maria Rolli, Italian, 1645 - 1727 · 1690–1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half Mask (Menpō) with Gorget

Half Mask (Menpō) with Gorget

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque for an Oblong Panel, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Grotesque for an Oblong Panel

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1730–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half Mask (Menpō) with Gorget

Half Mask (Menpō) with Gorget

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615–1868

Public domainThe Met
The mask of a warrior, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

The mask of a warrior

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1770

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. 42 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. 260235 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 09:10 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.