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 Plaque with the Crucifixion” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:28 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 Plaque with the Crucifixion

Ivory Plaque with the Crucifixion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000

Public domainThe Met
Plaque, by Unidentified

Plaque

Unidentified · 1300-1400

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smith and Wesson .44 Double-Action Revolver for George Jay Gould (1864–1923), serial no. 23402, with Case and Cleaning Brush, by Smith & Wesson

Smith and Wesson .44 Double-Action Revolver for George Jay Gould (1864–1923), serial no. 23402, with Case and Cleaning Brush

Smith & Wesson · 1888–89

Public domainThe Met
Plaque, by Unidentified

Plaque

Unidentified · 1300-1400

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion

Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century (ivory); late 11th century (setting)

Public domainThe Met
Plaque, by Unidentified

Plaque

Unidentified · 1450-1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Icon with the Crucifixion

Icon with the Crucifixion

Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century

Public domainThe Met
Plaque, by Smillies, active 15th century

Plaque

Smillies, active 15th century · 1400-1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Descent from the Cross

Plaque with the Descent from the Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Public domainThe Met
Plaque, by Unidentified

Plaque

Unidentified · 1300-1400

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Pentecost

Plaque with the Pentecost

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Plaque, by Unidentified

Plaque

Unidentified · 1500-1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church

Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–825

Public domainThe Met
Plaque, by Unidentified

Plaque

Unidentified · 1350-1400

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Plaque, by Unidentified

Plaque

Unidentified · 1300-1400

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià, by Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists

Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià

Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
The Crucifixion, Study after Ludovica Carracci, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Crucifixion, Study after Ludovica Carracci

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by Jean Brandely

Cabinet

Jean Brandely · 1867

Public domainThe Met
Knife

Knife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Censing Angels

Plaque with Censing Angels

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170–80

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet

Cabinet

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
"Dieppe"

"Dieppe"

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 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. 652 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 1304598 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 21:28 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.