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 ram and head of “Zeus Ammon” supporting an incense burner” — 52 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:37 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 ram and head of “Zeus Ammon” supporting an incense burner

Limestone ram and head of “Zeus Ammon” supporting an incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809

Ornamental Vase Design

Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of Zeus Ammon

Limestone statuette of Zeus Ammon

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Berthelot, French, active late 18th century

Title Page

Berthelot, French, active late 18th century · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with enthroned ruler, by Chakalte'

Relief with enthroned ruler

Chakalte' · 770 CE

Public domainThe Met
PIED-D’ESTAL surmonté d’un trépied dans le genre antique, ou de tel autre ornement qu’on desirera, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

PIED-D’ESTAL surmonté d’un trépied dans le genre antique, ou de tel autre ornement qu’on desirera

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Visit of Manjushri to Vimalakirti (base of stele)

The Visit of Manjushri to Vimalakirti (base of stele)

Artist not stated in the record · inscription dated 533–43

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design, by Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802

Arabesque Design

Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stele Commissioned by Helian Ziyue (赫蓮子悅) and a Devotional Society of Five Hundred Individuals

Stele Commissioned by Helian Ziyue (赫蓮子悅) and a Devotional Society of Five Hundred Individuals

Artist not stated in the record · dated 533–43

Public domainThe Met
PIED-D’ESTAL surmonté d’un trépied dans le genre antique, ou de tel autre ornement qu’on desirera, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

PIED-D’ESTAL surmonté d’un trépied dans le genre antique, ou de tel autre ornement qu’on desirera

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone fragment of a sphinx supporting an incense burner

Limestone fragment of a sphinx supporting an incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Incense Burner

Design for an Incense Burner

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Censer with seated king, by Maya artist(s)

Censer with seated king

Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Frames and an Incense Burner, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Designs for Frames and an Incense Burner

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whistling vessel, by Maya artist(s)

Whistling vessel

Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by François Voisin, French, active 18th century

Title Page

François Voisin, French, active 18th century · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Rain God

Head of a Rain God

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Design, by Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802

Arabesque Ornament Design

Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Censer Support

Censer Support

Artist not stated in the record · mid-7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure with conical headdress and shield, by Maya artist(s)

Figure with conical headdress and shield

Maya artist(s) · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design, by Michel, French, active 18th century

Arabesque Design

Michel, French, active 18th century · 1780-1784

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceremonial Handle (?)

Ceremonial Handle (?)

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Presentation Incense Burner for Agustín de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico, by F. Celaya

Presentation Incense Burner for Agustín de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico

F. Celaya · 1823

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. 12 matched · 12 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. 3143368 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 2026-09-06 06:37 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.