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 “Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:23 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.
Plaque from a Reliquary, by Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket

Plaque from a Reliquary

Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
The Elevation of a Reliquary of a Skull

The Elevation of a Reliquary of a Skull

Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enamel from a Reliquary, by Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket

Enamel from a Reliquary

Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Reliquary, by Unidentified

Reliquary

Unidentified · 1700-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque from a Reliquary, by Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket

Plaque from a Reliquary

Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Chasse with Saints and Angels

Chasse with Saints and Angels

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque from a Reliquary, by Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket

Plaque from a Reliquary

Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child, by Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, born Siegen, Germany 1577-died Antwerp, Belgium 1640

Madonna and Child

Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, born Siegen, Germany 1577-died Antwerp, Belgium 1640 · ca. 1615-1618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket, by Wenzel Jamnitzer

Casket

Wenzel Jamnitzer · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary Monstrance

Design for a Reliquary Monstrance

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Shrine, by Jean de Touyl

Reliquary Shrine

Jean de Touyl · ca. 1325–50

Public domainThe Met
Madonna, by Master of Serumido, Italian, n.d.

Madonna

Master of Serumido, Italian, n.d. · ca. 1500-1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi, by Master of Pedret

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi

Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Old Italian Masters, by Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Old Italian Masters

Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition), by Tilman Heysacker

The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)

Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Old Italian Masters, by Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Old Italian Masters

Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Casket with the Deesis, Archangels, and the Twelve Apostles

Reliquary Casket with the Deesis, Archangels, and the Twelve Apostles

Artist not stated in the record · 950–1000

Public domainThe Met
Old Italian Masters, by Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Old Italian Masters

Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Old Italian Masters, by Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Old Italian Masters

Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Old Italian Masters, by Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Old Italian Masters

Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher

Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1375–1425

Public domainThe Met
Old Italian Masters, by Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Old Italian Masters

Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

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. 479 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. 3021563 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-26 20:23 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.