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 “Inscribed Element, possibly back pillar with Aten cartouche” — 57 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:25 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.
Inscribed Element, possibly back pillar with Aten cartouche

Inscribed Element, possibly back pillar with Aten cartouche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Title Page

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed Element, possibly back pillar

Inscribed Element, possibly back pillar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
"Blackpool"

"Blackpool"

Artist not stated in the record · 1900–10

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
Carte-de-visite of a sailor named Jim

Carte-de-visite of a sailor named Jim

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Savoyards

Savoyards

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair-case watch with alarm, by Adam Roumeau

Pair-case watch with alarm

Adam Roumeau · probably ca. 1695

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock watch with astronomical dial and sundial, by Jan Jansen Bockeltz

Clock watch with astronomical dial and sundial

Jan Jansen Bockeltz · ca. 1605–10

Public domainThe Met
Fantastical Garden with Musicians, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Fantastical Garden with Musicians

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Tomb Designs, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Tomb Designs

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

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
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Quinten Massys

The Adoration of the Magi

Quinten Massys · 1526

Public domainThe Met
"Speak No Evil, See No Evil, Hear No Evil"

"Speak No Evil, See No Evil, Hear No Evil"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows, by Bernard van Orley

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Peleg K. Dunham (1794–1822), by William Rose Sr., 1783–1856

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Peleg K. Dunham (1794–1822)

William Rose Sr., 1783–1856 · 1817

Public domainThe Met
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Snail Shell

Snail Shell

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th 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. 17 matched · 17 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. 306000 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 23:25 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.