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 “Ivory Crozier Head with Christ in Majesty and Throne of Wisdom” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:17 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.
Ivory Crozier Head with Christ in Majesty and Throne of Wisdom

Ivory Crozier Head with Christ in Majesty and Throne of Wisdom

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century and later

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in Majesty

Virgin and Child in Majesty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Historical Buddha Shakyamuni with the bodhisattvas Fugen (Samantabhadra) and Monju (Manjushri)

Historical Buddha Shakyamuni with the bodhisattvas Fugen (Samantabhadra) and Monju (Manjushri)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crozier Head with Crucifixion, Virgin and Child, and Saint Denis

Crozier Head with Crucifixion, Virgin and Child, and Saint Denis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Christ before Herod, from The Little Passion Series

Christ before Herod, from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · 1509

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Segment of a Crozier Shaft

Segment of a Crozier Shaft

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1722

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Claus de Werve

Virgin and Child

Claus de Werve · ca. 1415–17

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
Knob from a Crozier with the Entry into Jerusalem

Knob from a Crozier with the Entry into Jerusalem

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200

Public domainThe Met
Ivory throne leg

Ivory throne leg

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

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
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1820

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
Madonna Enthroned, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Madonna Enthroned

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

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

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Christ before Caiphas

Christ before Caiphas

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1600

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
Shrine and figure

Shrine and figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child

Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
The Head of Christ, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

The Head of Christ

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crozier Head with Double Enthroned Christ

Crozier Head with Double Enthroned Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–1375

Public domainThe Met
Christ on the Cross, plate 118, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Christ on the Cross, plate 118, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

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

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. 31 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. 7483877 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 05:17 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.