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. 15 shown for “Lead votive roundel with table offerings” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:03 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.
Lead votive roundel with table offerings

Lead votive roundel with table offerings

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Bacchus and Ariadne with Autumn and Victories and Three Roundels with Putti, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Bacchus and Ariadne with Autumn and Victories and Three Roundels with Putti

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Steatite miniature offering table

Steatite miniature offering table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1700 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Watch Keys, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Watch Keys

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornament and Roundels, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament and Roundels

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–1050

Public domainThe Met
Young Woman with a Lute, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Public domainThe Met
Belt Clasp

Belt Clasp

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pectoral Ornament (?)

Pectoral Ornament (?)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pectoral Ornament (?)

Pectoral Ornament (?)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Saint Martin Offering the Wine Cup to the Priest

Saint Martin Offering the Wine Cup to the Priest

Artist not stated in the record · 1430–35

Public domainThe Met
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. 50 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 264647 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:03 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.