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. 12 shown for “Marble sarcophagus fragment of "The Judgement of Paris"” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:02 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Marble sarcophagus fragment: head of a Black African

Marble sarcophagus fragment: head of a Black African

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

Public domainThe Met
Marble sarcophagus fragment: head of a Gaul

Marble sarcophagus fragment: head of a Gaul

Artist not stated in the record · 160–180 CE

Public domainThe Met
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
Marble sarcophagus fragment

Marble sarcophagus fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 190–210 CE

Public domainThe Met
Marble sarcophagus fragment

Marble sarcophagus fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Left corner of a marble sarcophagus: Herakles and the Nemean Lion, by Lysippos

Left corner of a marble sarcophagus: Herakles and the Nemean Lion

Lysippos · ca. 170–180 CE

Public domainThe Met
Upper right corner of a marble sarcophagus: head of a Black African and a maenad

Upper right corner of a marble sarcophagus: head of a Black African and a maenad

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

Public domainThe Met
Marble sarcophagus fragment: Eros mounted on a horse

Marble sarcophagus fragment: Eros mounted on a horse

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

Public domainThe Met
Marble sarcophagus fragment: head and torso of a Gaul

Marble sarcophagus fragment: head and torso of a Gaul

Artist not stated in the record · 160–180 CE

Public domainThe Met
Marble sarcophagus fragment: marriage scene

Marble sarcophagus fragment: marriage scene

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

Public domainThe Met
Upper right corner of a marble sarcophagus with the Latin legend of Mars and Rhea Silvia

Upper right corner of a marble sarcophagus with the Latin legend of Mars and Rhea Silvia

Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–early 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Marble sarcophagus fragment: Eros leaning on a reversed torch

Marble sarcophagus fragment: Eros leaning on a reversed torch

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

Public domainThe Met
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. 27 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 13:02 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.