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. 23 shown for “Medallion with Saint George Slaying The Dragon” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:31 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 Saint George Slaying The Dragon

Medallion with Saint George Slaying The Dragon

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion

Medallion

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century (before 1227)

Public domainThe Met
Twelve Circular Medallions with Representations of the Deeds of Hercules, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Twelve Circular Medallions with Representations of the Deeds of Hercules

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion

Medallion

Artist not stated in the record · before 1227

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid-late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Niche with Religious Attributes, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for a Niche with Religious Attributes

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

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
Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Medallion, by Unidentified

Medallion

Unidentified · 1800-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant Medallion with Michael Slaying the Dragon

Pendant Medallion with Michael Slaying the Dragon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1470–80

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield Depicting Saint George Slaying the Dragon

Shield Depicting Saint George Slaying the Dragon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–70

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
Saint George and the Dragon, by Hans Klocker

Saint George and the Dragon

Hans Klocker · ca. 1475

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1757

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
Knife, by Baiiof

Knife

Baiiof · ca. 1672

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
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. 168 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. 1494704 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 11:31 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.