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. 15 shown for “Marble funerary lekythos of Aristomache” — 45 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:21 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 funerary lekythos of Aristomache

Marble funerary lekythos of Aristomache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 375–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Album of Designs for Architectural Details and Ornament, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Album of Designs for Architectural Details and Ornament

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble funerary lekythos

Marble funerary lekythos

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 375–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lekythos with Youth Holding Lances

Lekythos with Youth Holding Lances

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble funerary lekythos of Kallisthenes

Marble funerary lekythos of Kallisthenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lateral stretcher from the base of a funerary couch with Sogdian musicians and a dancer

Lateral stretcher from the base of a funerary couch with Sogdian musicians and a dancer

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

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

Marble grave stele of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · 425–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Frontal from the base of a funerary couch with Sogdian musicians and dancers and Buddhist divinities

Frontal from the base of a funerary couch with Sogdian musicians and dancers and Buddhist divinities

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lachrymae, by Frederic, Lord Leighton

Lachrymae

Frederic, Lord Leighton · 1894–95

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Vase

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1810–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lekythos

Lekythos

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lekythos

Lekythos

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lateral stretcher from the base of a funerary couch with Sogdian musicians and a dancer

Lateral stretcher from the base of a funerary couch with Sogdian musicians and a dancer

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Projects for Painted Grotesque Decorations of a Ceiling

Two Projects for Painted Grotesque Decorations of a Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of funerary pall

Fragment of funerary pall

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 17th 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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2859801 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 14:21 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.