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 “Indra, Lord of the Gods: Regent of the East” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:30 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.
Indra, Lord of the Gods: Regent of the East

Indra, Lord of the Gods: Regent of the East

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stela of the royal scribe Amunnakht praising the divine barque of Amun-Re, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands

Stela of the royal scribe Amunnakht praising the divine barque of Amun-Re, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1197–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1717

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja)

Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a garment with embroidered inscription

Fragment of a garment with embroidered inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 908–932 AD

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Bodisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Standing Bodisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland, by Jacob Halder

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland

Jacob Halder · 1586

Public domainThe Met
Family register sampler

Family register sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Deed of sale including 237 enslaved persons in transaction

Deed of sale including 237 enslaved persons in transaction

Artist not stated in the record · August 20, 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Indra

Standing Indra

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffin of Khnumnakht

Coffin of Khnumnakht

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Indra Swallowtail

Indra Swallowtail

Artist not stated in the record · 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte)

The Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

Public domainThe Met
Indra Swallowtail

Indra Swallowtail

Artist not stated in the record · 1996

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. 1031 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. 3029028 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-27 12:30 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.