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 with gladiators” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:14 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 relief fragment with gladiators

Marble relief fragment with gladiators

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

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
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
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
Relief with the Annunciation

Relief with the Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

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
Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

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 stele (grave marker) of a woman

Marble stele (grave marker) of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-4th century BCE

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

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

Marble relief fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Tomb Carving from the Museum at Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Tomb Carving from the Museum at Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 14-25, 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a marble votive relief dedicated to a hero

Fragment of a marble votive relief dedicated to a hero

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

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 fragment of a hero relief

Marble fragment of a hero relief

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century 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
Trophy relief fragment

Trophy relief fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Mortar

Mortar

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble fragment of a relief with a flying Eros

Marble fragment of a relief with a flying Eros

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project), by Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798

View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project)

Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble fragment of a votive relief with Athena

Marble fragment of a votive relief with Athena

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 405–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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. 83 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. 286641 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 01:14 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.