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 table leg (trapezophoros) with reliefs of griffins” — 47 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:04 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 table leg (trapezophoros) with reliefs of griffins

Marble table leg (trapezophoros) with reliefs of griffins

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Elevation of a Console Table

The Elevation of a Console Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble trapezophoros (table support)

Marble trapezophoros (table support)

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Marble-top table from the home of Robert Smalls, by Unidentified

Marble-top table from the home of Robert Smalls

Unidentified · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Console table, by Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo

Console table

Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo · ca. 1782–92

Public domainThe Met
Marble-top table from the home of Robert Smalls, by Unidentified

Marble-top table from the home of Robert Smalls

Unidentified · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reclining mouflon

Reclining mouflon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–1900 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Marble-top table from the home of Robert Smalls, by Unidentified

Marble-top table from the home of Robert Smalls

Unidentified · 1870s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triton and Nereid, by Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Triton and Nereid

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · after 1532–before ca. 1550

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Small Breakfast Tables, by Angelo Mezzetti, Italian

Design for Two Small Breakfast Tables

Angelo Mezzetti, Italian · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Console Table, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Console Table

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds, by Vittore Gambello

Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds

Vittore Gambello · ca. 1515–20

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
Console Tables, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Console Tables

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Console table

Console table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Throne of the Priest of Bacchus, after Ancient Marble

Design for a Throne of the Priest of Bacchus, after Ancient Marble

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a table with decorated base, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a table with decorated base

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Console Table

Design for a Console Table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

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. 2906265 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-06 01:04 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.