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. 22 shown for “Iconographical Drawing of the Mandala of the Wisdom King Aizen” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:20 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.
Iconographical Drawing of the Mandala of the Wisdom King Aizen

Iconographical Drawing of the Mandala of the Wisdom King Aizen

Artist not stated in the record · 1107 (Kashō 2)

Public domainThe Met
The Spirit of Wisdom, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Spirit of Wisdom

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Wisdom King Aizen (Aizen Myōō)

The Wisdom King Aizen (Aizen Myōō)

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Allegory of Divine Wisdom, Reception Room, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy, by Andrea Sacchi, Italian, 1599 – 1661

Design for Allegory of Divine Wisdom, Reception Room, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy

Andrea Sacchi, Italian, 1599 – 1661 · 1629–1631

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja), by Kaikei

Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja)

Kaikei · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Decoration of an Arched Portal, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Decoration of an Arched Portal

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1750–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Marius, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Triumph of Marius

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

Public domainThe Met
The Queen of Sheba Admiring the Wisdom of Solomon, by Williams, Mary

The Queen of Sheba Admiring the Wisdom of Solomon

Williams, Mary · 1744

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom

Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Design for Parts of a Coach

Design for Parts of a Coach

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist, by Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · ca. 1528

Public domainThe Met
Wisdom – Sapience

Wisdom – Sapience

Artist not stated in the record · 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised.", by Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735

Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised."

Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735 · 1726

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Interlaced circles

Interlaced circles

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
The Study of King Louis-Philippe at Neuilly, by James Roberts, British, active France, ca. 1800–1867

The Study of King Louis-Philippe at Neuilly

James Roberts, British, active France, ca. 1800–1867 · 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Meditation on the Passion, by Vittore Carpaccio

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Vanitas Still Life, by Jacques de Gheyn II

Vanitas Still Life

Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603

Public domainThe Met
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. 93 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. 3015017 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 23:20 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.