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 relief fragment” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:58 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
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
Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire), by Jean Henri Riesener

Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)

Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Public domainThe Met
George Scott Winslow, by Edmonia Lewis, American, 1844 - 1907

George Scott Winslow

Edmonia Lewis, American, 1844 - 1907 · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief fragment

Marble relief fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Mantelpiece Reliefs, Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Mantelpiece Reliefs, Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode (Secrétaire à abattant), by Jean Henri Riesener

Commode (Secrétaire à abattant)

Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration for Cosimo III de' Medici, by Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725

Wall Decoration for Cosimo III de' Medici

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725 · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief fragment

Marble relief fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief fragment with gladiators

Marble relief fragment with gladiators

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

Public domainThe Met
Sala del Thorvaldsen, Rome, by Franz Heinrich, German, 1802–1890

Sala del Thorvaldsen, Rome

Franz Heinrich, German, 1802–1890 · 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief fragment depicting athletic prizes

Marble relief fragment depicting athletic prizes

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card

Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief fragment with the head of a youth

Marble relief fragment with the head of a youth

Artist not stated in the record · 1st quarter of 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mortar

Mortar

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief fragment with the head of Medea

Marble relief fragment with the head of Medea

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd 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
Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pedestal and a Bowl, Intended for Execution in White and Rose Marbles for Marie Antoinette at St. Cloud, by Unknown

Design for a Pedestal and a Bowl, Intended for Execution in White and Rose Marbles for Marie Antoinette at St. Cloud

Unknown · 1780–1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief fragment with scenes from the Trojan War

Marble relief fragment with scenes from the Trojan War

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

Public domainThe Met
Section of wall, salon Louis XIII, Palace of Fontainebleau, France, by Frederick Marschall

Section of wall, salon Louis XIII, Palace of Fontainebleau, France

Frederick Marschall · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief fragment with the head of Mars

Marble relief fragment with the head of Mars

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

Public domainThe Met
Section of wall, Escalier de la cour ovale, Palace of Fontainebleau, France, by Frederick Marschall

Section of wall, Escalier de la cour ovale, Palace of Fontainebleau, France

Frederick Marschall · ca. 1885

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. 2404 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. 47435 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 2026-08-26 22:58 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.