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 “Head of Addorsed Maheshvara” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:54 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.
Head of Addorsed Maheshvara

Head of Addorsed Maheshvara

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch in the form of an owl head, by Castellani

Brooch in the form of an owl head

Castellani · ca. 1860

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Horse Heads

Panel with Horse Heads

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Grace Lincoln Temple, 1865–1953

Frieze

Grace Lincoln Temple, 1865–1953 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini

Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini

Artist not stated in the record · carved 1000s, assembled 1100s or 1200s

Public domainThe Met
Recto: A portal; Verso: Portrait of a young warrior, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Recto: A portal; Verso: Portrait of a young warrior

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hemispheroid seal with addorsed Egyptianizing human heads

Hemispheroid seal with addorsed Egyptianizing human heads

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1991–1786 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475–1564

Design for a Candlestick

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475–1564 · 1520–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a hydria: kalpis (water jar)

Terracotta fragment of a hydria: kalpis (water jar)

Artist not stated in the record · 460–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse bit cheekpiece in form of addorsed griffin heads

Horse bit cheekpiece in form of addorsed griffin heads

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse bit cheekpiece in form of addorsed bird heads

Horse bit cheekpiece in form of addorsed bird heads

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with a Pair of Addorsed Sphinxes with Scorpion Tails

Mirror with a Pair of Addorsed Sphinxes with Scorpion Tails

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with a Pair of Addorsed Sphinxes with Scorpion Tails

Mirror with a Pair of Addorsed Sphinxes with Scorpion Tails

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

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. 63 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. 2881019 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 15:54 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.