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 fragment” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:07 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 fragment

Inscribed fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragments in Forum, Rome, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Fragments in Forum, Rome

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed Fragment of Vase

Inscribed Fragment of Vase

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Oracle bone fragments, inscribed

Oracle bone fragments, inscribed

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250 - ca. 1050 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed Fragment of Vase

Inscribed Fragment of Vase

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Oracle bone fragment, inscribed

Oracle bone fragment, inscribed

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250 - ca. 1050 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed Fragment of Vase

Inscribed Fragment of Vase

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed Pot Fragment

Inscribed Pot Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed Pot Fragment

Inscribed Pot Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed Pot Fragment

Inscribed Pot Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plate IV, vol. II of "Le Antichita Romane", by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Plate IV, vol. II of "Le Antichita Romane"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed Pot Fragment

Inscribed Pot Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A woman drawing, by Jessie Curtis

A woman drawing

Jessie Curtis · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed Pot Fragment

Inscribed Pot Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jeremiah Draper's Book

Jeremiah Draper's Book

Artist not stated in the record · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble inscribed block fragment

Marble inscribed block fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Apotheosis of Franklin

Apotheosis of Franklin

Artist not stated in the record · 1780s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary marble inscription

Fragmentary marble inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Apotheosis of Franklin

Apotheosis of Franklin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed fragment of a support pillar, Akhenaten, Nefetiti, Aten cartouches

Inscribed fragment of a support pillar, Akhenaten, Nefetiti, Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Apotheosis of Franklin

Apotheosis of Franklin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

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. 764 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. 41382 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 03:07 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.