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 with an incised guilloche design” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:51 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 with an incised guilloche design

Horse frontlet with an incised guilloche design

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Centennial Pedestal, by Karl L. H. Müller

Centennial Pedestal

Karl L. H. Müller · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Bedcover (colcha)

Bedcover (colcha)

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incised horse frontlet carved into the shape of a flowering, volute palmette tree

Incised horse frontlet carved into the shape of a flowering, volute palmette tree

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Iron Balcony, by Gabriel Bonthomme, France, active ca. 1775

Design for an Iron Balcony

Gabriel Bonthomme, France, active ca. 1775 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Horse and Rider

Dish with Horse and Rider

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Design of an Alcove, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design of an Alcove

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud, by Georges Jacob

Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud

Georges Jacob · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Oval Frame, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Project for an Oval Frame

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Snuffbox mounted with two miniatures

Snuffbox mounted with two miniatures

Artist not stated in the record · 1768–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gemellion (Hand Basin) with a Knight on Horseback

Gemellion (Hand Basin) with a Knight on Horseback

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250–75

Public domainThe Met
Guilloche Enamel Match Safe, by August Wilhelm Holmström, Finnish, 1829 - 1903

Guilloche Enamel Match Safe

August Wilhelm Holmström, Finnish, 1829 - 1903 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table, by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin

Table

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin · ca. 1833–34

Public domainThe Met
Box or Snuffbox Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Box or Snuffbox Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of America, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

Allegory of America

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · ca. 1587–89

Public domainThe Met
Box or Snuffbox Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Box or Snuffbox Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse blinker carved in relief with a seated sphinx

Horse blinker carved in relief with a seated sphinx

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray, by Sèvres Manufactory

Tray

Sèvres Manufactory · 1836

Public domainThe Met
Developpement d'une autre Porte Corinthienne, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791

Developpement d'une autre Porte Corinthienne

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius, by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ceiling

Design for a Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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. 24 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. 360618 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 23:51 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.