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 “Limestone pediment from a funerary stele (shaft)” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 15:27 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.
Limestone pediment from a funerary stele (shaft)

Limestone pediment from a funerary stele (shaft)

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulchral Monument, by Unknown, Italian

Design for a Sepulchral Monument

Unknown, Italian · 1620-1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone funerary stele (shaft) with a "Cypriot capital"

Limestone funerary stele (shaft) with a "Cypriot capital"

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral (Funerary) Monument Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Sepulchral (Funerary) Monument Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele of Antigenes

Marble grave stele of Antigenes

Artist not stated in the record · end of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chalice

Design for a Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th–late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone pediment fragment

Limestone pediment fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulchral (Funerary) Wall Mounted Monument, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Design for a Sepulchral (Funerary) Wall Mounted Monument

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulchral (Funerary) Wall Mounted Monument, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Design for a Sepulchral (Funerary) Wall Mounted Monument

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Stele with Architectural Frame

Funerary Stele with Architectural Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Royal Catafalque, by Luca Arinelli, Italian, active 1770

Elevation of a Royal Catafalque

Luca Arinelli, Italian, active 1770 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone funerary stele with antithetical sphinxes

Limestone funerary stele with antithetical sphinxes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 475–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Reliquary, by Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650

Design for Reliquary

Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · 1620–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painted limestone funerary stele with a woman in childbirth

Painted limestone funerary stele with a woman in childbirth

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulchral (Funerary) Wall Mounted Monument, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Design for a Sepulchral (Funerary) Wall Mounted Monument

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Stele with Cross Medallion below Eagle at Center in Architectural Frame

Funerary Stele with Cross Medallion below Eagle at Center in Architectural Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Candelabra

Elevation of a Candelabra

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Stele with Eagle in Architectural Frame

Funerary Stele with Eagle in Architectural Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Baptismal Font, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painted limestone funerary stele with a seated man and two standing figures

Painted limestone funerary stele with a seated man and two standing figures

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Baptismal Font, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Front of a limestone block from the stepped base of a funerary monument, by Phaidimos

Front of a limestone block from the stepped base of a funerary monument

Phaidimos · mid-6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650

Drawing

Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · 1620-1630

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. 80 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. 1964530 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-08-30 15:27 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.