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 “Medallion with Christ from an Icon Frame” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:41 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.
Medallion with Christ from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Christ from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Byzantine-Style Mosaic Necklace with Christ and Twelve Apostles, by Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy)

Byzantine-Style Mosaic Necklace with Christ and Twelve Apostles

Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy) · 1870s-1910s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint Peter from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint Peter from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Base of the Silver Crucifix for the High Altar of Saint Peter's, Rome, Italy, by Carlo Spagna, Italian, ca. 1641 - 1680

Design for the Base of the Silver Crucifix for the High Altar of Saint Peter's, Rome, Italy

Carlo Spagna, Italian, ca. 1641 - 1680 · 1670–72

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Medallion Design, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Ornamental Medallion Design

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint Luke from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint Luke from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Baptismal Font, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint Matthew from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint Matthew from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint Paul from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint Paul from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with the Virgin from an Icon Frame

Medallion with the Virgin from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Panel Design with the Virgin Mary, Jesus, and Saint John, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Panel Design with the Virgin Mary, Jesus, and Saint John

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1654

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint John the Baptist from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint John the Baptist from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decorations of Five Pilaster Strips, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Decorations of Five Pilaster Strips

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint John the Evangelist from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint John the Evangelist from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Medallion Design, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Ornamental Medallion Design

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cameo of the Virgin and Child, by Adrien Jean Maximilien Vachette

Cameo of the Virgin and Child

Adrien Jean Maximilien Vachette · ca. 1050–1100 (cameo); ca. 1800 (frame)

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design with Hercules, by François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693

Ornament Design with Hercules

François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)

Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · 17th century

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. 731 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. 616005 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 20:41 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.