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 with Hermes” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 14:05 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
Two Skewers with Caduceus Terminals

Two Skewers with Caduceus Terminals

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief with Hermes

Marble relief with Hermes

Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–68 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
Relief with the Annunciation

Relief with the Annunciation

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

Public domainThe Met
POELE dans le genre modern, à pans coupés, avec bas-relief, au choix des personnes, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

POELE dans le genre modern, à pans coupés, avec bas-relief, au choix des personnes

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

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 Niche with a Buffet, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Niche with a Buffet

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble disk with a herm of Dionysus in relief

Marble disk with a herm of Dionysus in relief

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

Public domainThe Met
POELE dans le genre modern, à pans coupés, avec bas-relief, au choix des personnes, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

POELE dans le genre modern, à pans coupés, avec bas-relief, au choix des personnes

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Base of the Monument to Andrea Doria, by Baccio Bandinelli, Italian, 1488-1560

Design for the Base of the Monument to Andrea Doria

Baccio Bandinelli, Italian, 1488-1560 · mid-1530s

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
POELE formant encoignure et orné de figures en bas-reliefs, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

POELE formant encoignure et orné de figures en bas-reliefs

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock, by Jean-Baptiste Lepaute

Clock

Jean-Baptiste Lepaute · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
Interior Wall Elevations, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Interior Wall Elevations

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1696–1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris, by Nicolas Huyot

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris

Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
POELE formant encoignure et orné de figures en bas-reliefs, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

POELE formant encoignure et orné de figures en bas-reliefs

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Panel with Two Griffins Drinking from a Cup

Relief Panel with Two Griffins Drinking from a Cup

Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 10th century

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 statue of Hermes, by Polykleitos

Marble statue of Hermes

Polykleitos · 1st or 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design of a Cabinet in the Louis XVI Style

Design of a Cabinet in the Louis XVI Style

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical figure, by François Girardon

Allegorical figure

François Girardon · 1672–75

Public domainThe Met
Carex scopulorum var. bracteosa (L.H. Bailey) F.J. Herm.

Carex scopulorum var. bracteosa (L.H. Bailey) F.J. Herm.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1949

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. 393 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. 255690 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-31 14:05 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.