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 plaque with funerary inscription” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:27 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.
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of funerary pall

Fragment of funerary pall

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

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 plaque with funerary inscription

Marble plaque with funerary inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Small Breakfast Tables, by Angelo Mezzetti, Italian

Design for Two Small Breakfast Tables

Angelo Mezzetti, Italian · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble plaque with funerary inscription

Marble plaque with funerary inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Stone slave auction block from Hagerstown, Maryland, by Unidentified

Stone slave auction block from Hagerstown, Maryland

Unidentified · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble funerary inscription

Marble funerary inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

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 funerary inscription

Marble funerary inscription

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

Public domainThe Met
Mantel clock

Mantel clock

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame de Wailly, née Adélaïde-Flore Belleville (1765–1838), by Augustin Pajou

Madame de Wailly, née Adélaïde-Flore Belleville (1765–1838)

Augustin Pajou · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Garden, by Jan David Zocher the Younger, 1791–1870

Design for a Garden

Jan David Zocher the Younger, 1791–1870 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele with a family group

Marble grave stele with a family group

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 360 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Memorial Window for Harriet M. Crall, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Memorial Window for Harriet M. Crall

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble sarcophagus with garlands

Marble sarcophagus with garlands

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200–225 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ellis Gamble's Shop Card

Ellis Gamble's Shop Card

Artist not stated in the record · 1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble plaque with epigram of Sopatros

Marble plaque with epigram of Sopatros

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

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
Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons

Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 260–270 CE

Public domainThe Met
Epitaphe de marbre et bronze de Mr. le Baron de Bezenval (Epitaph in Marble and Bronze for Baron de Bezenval), plate 100, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Epitaphe de marbre et bronze de Mr. le Baron de Bezenval (Epitaph in Marble and Bronze for Baron de Bezenval), plate 100, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by Sèvres Manufactory

Cabinet

Sèvres Manufactory · plaques 1761–65, cabinet ca. 1822

Public domainThe Met
Two Funerary Monument Designs, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Two Funerary Monument Designs

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

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. 59 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. 257253 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 2026-09-05 23:27 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.