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 “Marriage chest (cassone) with scenes from the story of David and Goliath” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 12:06 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.
Marriage chest (cassone) with scenes from the story of David and Goliath

Marriage chest (cassone) with scenes from the story of David and Goliath

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
The Marriage at Cana; Hagar and Ishmal; David and Goliath

The Marriage at Cana; Hagar and Ishmal; David and Goliath

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath

Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath

Artist not stated in the record · 629–30

Public domainThe Met
David Receives the Holy Bread and Sword of Goliath [above]; Two Dragons Decapitated [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

David Receives the Holy Bread and Sword of Goliath [above]; Two Dragons Decapitated [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca .1595–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marriage chest (cassone)

Marriage chest (cassone)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480–95

Public domainThe Met
Belisarius, by Jean-Louis-Toussaint Caron (French, 1790-1832), French, 1790 – 1832

Belisarius

Jean-Louis-Toussaint Caron (French, 1790-1832), French, 1790 – 1832 · 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate V. Cold, Misery and Want...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate V. Cold, Misery and Want...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate III. An Execution Sweeps Off the Greater Part of Their Furniture...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate III. An Execution Sweeps Off the Greater Part of Their Furniture...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stove, by David II Pfau

Stove

David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate VIII. The Bottle Has Done Its Work...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate VIII. The Bottle Has Done Its Work...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate VI. Fearful Quarrels and Brutal Violence...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate VI. Fearful Quarrels and Brutal Violence...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate VII. The Husband in a State of Furious Drunkenness Kills His Wife...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate VII. The Husband in a State of Furious Drunkenness Kills His Wife...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with David Slaying a Lion

Plate with David Slaying a Lion

Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate I. The Bottle Is Brought Out for the First Time...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate I. The Bottle Is Brought Out for the First Time...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca. 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with David Anointed by Samuel

Plate with David Anointed by Samuel

Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate II. He Is Discharged From His Employment For Drunkness...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate II. He Is Discharged From His Employment For Drunkness...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts, by Biagio d'Antonio

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts

Biagio d'Antonio

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate IV. Unable to Obtain Employment...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate IV. Unable to Obtain Employment...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Family register sampler

Family register sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 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. 92 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. 3333055 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-04 12:06 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.