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. 22 shown for “Marble fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:22 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 fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Marble fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Column from the Temple of Solomon, by Nicolas Beatrizet, French, active in Rome, ca. 1515–65

The Column from the Temple of Solomon

Nicolas Beatrizet, French, active in Rome, ca. 1515–65 · 1570–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Marble fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE–early 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Candlestick

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble column from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Marble column from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Candlestick

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble fragment of an Ionic column base from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Marble fragment of an Ionic column base from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Detail at the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, Lebanon, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Architectural Detail at the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, Lebanon

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 6, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble fragment of an anta (pilaster) capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Marble fragment of an anta (pilaster) capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Details in Classical and Pseudo-Classical Style, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Architectural Details in Classical and Pseudo-Classical Style

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble architectural fragment with palmette from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Marble architectural fragment with palmette from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

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

Public domainThe Met
Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 15-17, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble fragment of an Ionic column capital

Marble fragment of an Ionic column capital

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Classical Temple

A Classical Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble fragment of an anta (pilaster) capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Marble fragment of an anta (pilaster) capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Artist not stated in the record · early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Details of Decorative Architecture

Details of Decorative Architecture

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Wall, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Wall

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Parthenon and Ruined Fragments, Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

The Parthenon and Ruined Fragments, Athens, Greece

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble molding fragment from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Marble molding fragment from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 117–138 CE

Public domainThe Met
Six Designs for Bedroom Alcoves, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Six Designs for Bedroom Alcoves

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele with a Lydian inscription

Marble stele with a Lydian inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE?

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulchral Monument for Three Brothers

Design for a Sepulchral Monument for Three Brothers

Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1610

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. 33 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3139421 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-26 18:22 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.