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 Saint Luke from an Icon Frame” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:53 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 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 the Decoration of a Candle with Bracket

Design for the Decoration of a Candle with Bracket

Artist not stated in the record · 1655–67

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
POSE DE LA PREMIÈRE PIERRE DE LA NOUVELLE ÉGLISE DE STE. GENEVIÈVE, by Saint-Aubin Gabriel de, French, 1724 – 1780

POSE DE LA PREMIÈRE PIERRE DE LA NOUVELLE ÉGLISE DE STE. GENEVIÈVE

Saint-Aubin Gabriel de, French, 1724 – 1780 · 1766

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
The Elevation of an Altar Retable and The Plan for an Altar Retable

The Elevation of an Altar Retable and The Plan for an Altar Retable

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

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
Boëtes ou Tabatieres, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Boëtes ou Tabatieres

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

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
Boëtes ou Tabatieres, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Boëtes ou Tabatieres

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

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
MÉDALLION POUR L’ANNÉE JUBILAIRE, OU CINQUANTIÈME DU RÈGNE DE LOUIS XV., by Saint-Aubin Gabriel de, French, 1724 – 1780

MÉDALLION POUR L’ANNÉE JUBILAIRE, OU CINQUANTIÈME DU RÈGNE DE LOUIS XV.

Saint-Aubin Gabriel de, French, 1724 – 1780 · 1766

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 a Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Unfinished, by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Unfinished

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805–1810

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
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
Saint Luke in a Niche, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Saint Luke in a Niche

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

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
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
Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret, by Andrea da Giona

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret

Andrea da Giona · 1434

Public domainThe Met
Album of Headpieces from Charles-François Saint-Lambert’s Les Saisons, Poëme, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Album of Headpieces from Charles-François Saint-Lambert’s Les Saisons, Poëme

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

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
INAUGURATION DE LA STATUË DE LOUIS XV, by Saint-Aubin Gabriel de, French, 1724 – 1780

INAUGURATION DE LA STATUË DE LOUIS XV

Saint-Aubin Gabriel de, French, 1724 – 1780 · 1766

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. 163 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. 644544 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 20:53 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.