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. 19 shown for “Jasper intaglio: Seated Serapis on crocodile” — 47 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:43 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.
Jasper intaglio: Seated Serapis on crocodile

Jasper intaglio: Seated Serapis on crocodile

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Dinner Plate with the Arms of Ker-Martin

Dinner Plate with the Arms of Ker-Martin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jasper intaglio: Harpocrates seated on a lotus

Jasper intaglio: Harpocrates seated on a lotus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
America

America

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jasper intaglio: The Three Graces

Jasper intaglio: The Three Graces

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
America, by Martin Engelbrecht, German, 1684–1756

America

Martin Engelbrecht, German, 1684–1756 · 1717

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Red jasper ring stone

Red jasper ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779 (U.S. Mint copy dies)

John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779 (U.S. Mint copy dies)

Artist not stated in the record · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serpentine intaglio: Radiate lion-headed god

Serpentine intaglio: Radiate lion-headed god

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Painting, The Bon Homme Richard and HMS Serapis, by Buttersworth, Thomas

Painting, The Bon Homme Richard and HMS Serapis

Buttersworth, Thomas · ca 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jasper intaglio: Harcoprates seated on a lotus flower

Jasper intaglio: Harcoprates seated on a lotus flower

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779, by Paris Mint

John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779

Paris Mint · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jasper intaglio: Harpocrates seated on lotus in papyrus boat

Jasper intaglio: Harpocrates seated on lotus in papyrus boat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779, by Paris Mint

John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779

Paris Mint · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779, by Paris Mint

John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779

Paris Mint · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779 (U.S. Mint copy die), by Paris Mint

John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779 (U.S. Mint copy die)

Paris Mint · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779, by Paris Mint

John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779

Paris Mint · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779 (Silvered electrotype taken from an original matrix)

John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779 (Silvered electrotype taken from an original matrix)

Artist not stated in the record · 1779

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 984444 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 10:43 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.