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 “Marble cinerary urn” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:00 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.
Marble cinerary urn

Marble cinerary urn

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475–1564

Design for a Candlestick

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475–1564 · 1520–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble cinerary urn with lid

Marble cinerary urn with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10 BCE–10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, Cinerary Urn and Roman Standards, by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

Ornament Design, Cinerary Urn and Roman Standards

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble cinerary urn in the form of a tree stump with leaves and grapes

Marble cinerary urn in the form of a tree stump with leaves and grapes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Wood Engraving. Vignette.

Wood Engraving. Vignette.

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble cinerary chest

Marble cinerary chest

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble fragment of a cinerary urn

Marble fragment of a cinerary urn

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Three sepulchral monuments, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Three sepulchral monuments

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl fragment with later inscription

Glass bowl fragment with later inscription

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Temple

Stage Design, Interior of Temple

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Porphyry vessel with bearded masks

Porphyry vessel with bearded masks

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 1st century BCE‒early 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Jacques Dumont, French, 1701 – 1781

Drawing

Jacques Dumont, French, 1701 – 1781 · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble cinerary chest with lid

Marble cinerary chest with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 90–110 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument for Melchiore Cesarotti, Professor in Padua, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for Melchiore Cesarotti, Professor in Padua

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Elevations of Sepulchral Monuments, Funeral Decorations for Louis XVI, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Elevations of Sepulchral Monuments, Funeral Decorations for Louis XVI

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta cinerary urn

Terracotta cinerary urn

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Atrium of a Church to be Dedicated to St. George, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Atrium of a Church to be Dedicated to St. George

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock, by Jean-Baptiste Lepaute

Clock

Jean-Baptiste Lepaute · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral monuments, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral monuments

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta cinerary urn

Terracotta cinerary urn

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Urn

Urn

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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. 97 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. 6103 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-27 18:00 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.