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 “Horse frontlet carved in relief with a female figure flanked by lions” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 16:27 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.
Horse frontlet carved in relief with a female figure flanked by lions

Horse frontlet carved in relief with a female figure flanked by lions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Panel, by Jean Louis Prieur, French, 1732 - 1795

Arabesque Panel

Jean Louis Prieur, French, 1732 - 1795 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Elevation d’une Fontaine, by Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782

Elevation d’une Fontaine

Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782 · 1755–1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

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

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
Allegorical figure, by François Girardon

Allegorical figure

François Girardon · 1672–75

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fireplace, Antinous Room, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for a Fireplace, Antinous Room, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1755–57

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene

Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th−9th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826), by Camillo Gajani, Italian

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)

Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaikuntha Vishnu

Vaikuntha Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Death Carrying a Lamp, by Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804

Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Death Carrying a Lamp

Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804 · 1779–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
L’ARC DE TRIOMPHE, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

L’ARC DE TRIOMPHE

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Estate Figure

Estate Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Clock

Design for a Clock

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Design, by Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840

Arabesque Ornament Design

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Design for a State Bedchamber, in Second Livre d'Appartements (Second Book on Interiors), by Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752

Design for a State Bedchamber, in Second Livre d'Appartements (Second Book on Interiors)

Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1702

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief panel

Relief panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 883–859 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief panel

Relief panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 883–859 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 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. 77 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. 7483587 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 16:27 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.