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. 13 shown for “Jupiter Sending Mercury to Priam” — 41 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:55 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.
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
Jupiter Sending Mercury to Priam

Jupiter Sending Mercury to Priam

Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1620

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jupiter and Mercury as Guests of Philemon and Baucis

Jupiter and Mercury as Guests of Philemon and Baucis

Artist not stated in the record · 1612

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Olympus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Olympus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hebe Pours Wine into Jupiter's Bowl, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Hebe Pours Wine into Jupiter's Bowl

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1780-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Iris Encourages Priam to Beg the Body of Hector from Achilles, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Iris Encourages Priam to Beg the Body of Hector from Achilles

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Semnopithecus priam priam

Semnopithecus priam priam

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Tureen Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Semnopithecus priam thersites

Semnopithecus priam thersites

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Semnopithecus priam thersites

Semnopithecus priam thersites

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Achilles Drags the Body of Hector around Walls of Troy, Priam Pleads for the Body of Hector, Ceiling Designs for the Galleria di Achille, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, Italy, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Achilles Drags the Body of Hector around Walls of Troy, Priam Pleads for the Body of Hector, Ceiling Designs for the Galleria di Achille, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, Italy

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1802–05

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 921362 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-03 13:55 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.