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 “Hand raised to support an element” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 01:56 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.
Hand raised to support an element

Hand raised to support an element

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin and Child with an Angel, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Virgin and Child with an Angel

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola

The Farnese Table

Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Public domainThe Met
The Christ Child upon an Altar between Two Saints, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Christ Child upon an Altar between Two Saints

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man with His Hand on His Chest, by Attributed to Corneille de Lyon

Portrait of a Man with His Hand on His Chest

Attributed to Corneille de Lyon · 1540–45

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of man saluting against a backdrop of Grant's Tomb

Tintype of man saluting against a backdrop of Grant's Tomb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1897-1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Bahram Gur Sees a Herd of Deer Mesmerized by Dilaram' s Music", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

"Bahram Gur Sees a Herd of Deer Mesmerized by Dilaram' s Music", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

Public domainThe Met
Inkstand, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Inkstand

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Coat of arms of Cardinal Vincenzo Maria Altieri, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Coat of arms of Cardinal Vincenzo Maria Altieri

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1789–1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"A King Offers to Make Amends to a Bereaved Mother", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

"A King Offers to Make Amends to a Bereaved Mother", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vessel (Sauceboat?), by Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575

Design for a Vessel (Sauceboat?)

Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · mid- 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Cupid

Cupid

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Public domainThe Met
Flyer advertising a donation drive to support African Freedom Fighters, by Revolutionary Student Brigade, American, 1974 - 1980

Flyer advertising a donation drive to support African Freedom Fighters

Revolutionary Student Brigade, American, 1974 - 1980 · May 1977

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Khusrau and Shirin, by Hatifi

Khusrau and Shirin

Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE

Public domainThe Met
Study for an Oval Ceiling Design, Apollo, Strength, and Love, by Fedele Fischetti, Italian, 1734 - 1789

Study for an Oval Ceiling Design, Apollo, Strength, and Love

Fedele Fischetti, Italian, 1734 - 1789 · 1760–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, by Théodore Géricault

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Console table, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Console table

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure Representing Geometry, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegorical Figure Representing Geometry

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Frame

Project for a Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · 1480–89

Public domainThe Met
Design for a cloth as place of an inscription, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for a cloth as place of an inscription

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1750–86

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. 2561 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 970747 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-08-29 01:56 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.