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. 23 shown for “Marble round altar with a frieze of animals and masks” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 05:47 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 round altar with a frieze of animals and masks

Marble round altar with a frieze of animals and masks

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Title Page

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià, by Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists

Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià

Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 16th century

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 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
Two Alternative Designs for Altars, by Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692

Two Alternative Designs for Altars

Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · 1690

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
Altar Mensa for the Capella Paolina (Borghese Chapel), Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italy, by Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804

Altar Mensa for the Capella Paolina (Borghese Chapel), Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italy

Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804 · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze fragment

Frieze fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece

Design for a Chimneypiece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Designs for Altars and a Frieze, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Two Designs for Altars and a Frieze

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini

Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini

Artist not stated in the record · carved 1000s, assembled 1100s or 1200s

Public domainThe Met
Six Designs for Altars, by Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692

Six Designs for Altars

Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Five Alternative Designs for Altars, by Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692

Five Alternative Designs for Altars

Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · 1690

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
Chimney Piece Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Chimney Piece Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475–1564

Design for a Candlestick

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475–1564 · 1520–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (commode en console), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Side table (commode en console)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1755–60

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Incense Burner

Design for an Incense Burner

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumn (one of a pair), by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle

Autumn (one of a pair)

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle · 1742–45

Public domainThe Met
Two Alternative Designs for Altars, by Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692

Two Alternative Designs for Altars

Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · 1690

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. 157 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 4877272 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-02 05:47 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.