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. 12 shown for “Limestone statuette of a seated Zeus Ammon” — 40 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:34 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Zeus and Ganymede, by Michelangelo Maestri, Italian, d. 1812

Zeus and Ganymede

Michelangelo Maestri, Italian, d. 1812 · ca. 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paris, Zeus visiting Callisto

Paris, Zeus visiting Callisto

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arabesque Ornament Designs, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Arabesque Ornament Designs

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arabesque Ornament Designs, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Arabesque Ornament Designs

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Ceiling with Spartan Women in Central Rectangular Panel, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for Ceiling with Spartan Women in Central Rectangular Panel

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury, by William Henry Hunt, British, 1790–1864

The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury

William Henry Hunt, British, 1790–1864 · 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zeus Angered

Zeus Angered

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fallen Column at the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Fallen Column at the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hebe Offering a Drink to Zeus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Hebe Offering a Drink to Zeus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–23

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, by Lockwood de Forest, American, 1850–1932

Study of the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus

Lockwood de Forest, American, 1850–1932 · January 24, 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Payment of Zeus, by Carl Marr, born Milwaukee, WI 1858-died Munich, Germany 1936

Payment of Zeus

Carl Marr, born Milwaukee, WI 1858-died Munich, Germany 1936 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Edward Newell

Edward Newell

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3859886 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 06:34 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.