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. 19 shown for “Marble sarcophagus fragment: marriage scene” — 47 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:28 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 sarcophagus fragment: marriage scene

Marble sarcophagus fragment: marriage scene

Artist not stated in the record · early 3rd century 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
Marble sarcophagus fragment

Marble sarcophagus fragment

Artist not stated in the record · mid-2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall - fragment

Sidewall - fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary marble sarcophagus with scenes from the Oresteia

Fragmentary marble sarcophagus with scenes from the Oresteia

Artist not stated in the record · mid-2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1801–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Right corner of a marble sarcophagus with the myth of Apollo and the satyr Marsyas

Right corner of a marble sarcophagus with the myth of Apollo and the satyr Marsyas

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 210–230 CE

Public domainThe Met
The Sarcophagus, by Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808

The Sarcophagus

Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Marble Tomb Relief with Christ Giving the Law

Fragment of a Marble Tomb Relief with Christ Giving the Law

Artist not stated in the record · late 300s

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble sarcophagus fragment of "The Judgement of Paris"

Marble sarcophagus fragment of "The Judgement of Paris"

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

Public domainThe Met
Sarcophagus and Allegorical Figures, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sarcophagus and Allegorical Figures

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abner's Messenger before David; The Queen of Sheba Bringing Gifts to Solomon; The Annunciation, by Master of the Saint Barbara Legend

Abner's Messenger before David; The Queen of Sheba Bringing Gifts to Solomon; The Annunciation

Master of the Saint Barbara Legend · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Project: the elevation of an altar, intended to be executed with colored marbles

Project: the elevation of an altar, intended to be executed with colored marbles

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Sarcophagus, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Sarcophagus

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Sarcophagus, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Sarcophagus

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marriage scenes, by Alexandre Buquet, French, 1802–1865

Marriage scenes

Alexandre Buquet, French, 1802–1865 · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Sepulchral Monument

Project for a Sepulchral Monument

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826), by Camillo Gajani, Italian

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)

Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 51284 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 10:28 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.