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. 22 shown for “Metope Painter” — 50 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:24 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.
Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water), by Metope Painter

Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water)

Metope Painter · 3rd quarter of the 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dado

Dado

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water), by Metope Painter

Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water)

Metope Painter · 3rd quarter of the 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Central Metope of the Frieze of Phidias, Parthenon, by Henry Bacon, born Haverhill, MA 1839-died Cairo, Egypt 1912

Central Metope of the Frieze of Phidias, Parthenon

Henry Bacon, born Haverhill, MA 1839-died Cairo, Egypt 1912 · ca. 1909-1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe (jug), by Cesnola Painter

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Cesnola Painter · ca. 750–740 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Elevation du costé du Jardin de l’Hostel d’Aumont, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Elevation du costé du Jardin de l’Hostel d’Aumont

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a terracotta oinochoe (jug), by Cesnola Painter

Fragment of a terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Cesnola Painter · ca. 750–740 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Elevaon de l’Entrée de Monsr. Jabba (Upper Plate) / Elevation du devant de l’Edifice de Monsr. Jabba (Lower Plate), by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Elevaon de l’Entrée de Monsr. Jabba (Upper Plate) / Elevation du devant de l’Edifice de Monsr. Jabba (Lower Plate)

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Painter of the Woolly Satyrs

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mausolee, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Mausolee

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar), by Ethiop Painter

Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar)

Ethiop Painter · ca. 450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Porte Dorique, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Porte Dorique

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kylix (drinking cup), by Briseis Painter

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Briseis Painter · ca. 480–470 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Elevation de costé du Jardin de l’Edifice de Monsr. Jabba (Upper Plate) / Elevation du Profil qui montre une partie des Chambres avec le Profil de la demi Lune de l’Edifice de Monsr. Jabba. (Lower Plate), by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Elevation de costé du Jardin de l’Edifice de Monsr. Jabba (Upper Plate) / Elevation du Profil qui montre une partie des Chambres avec le Profil de la demi Lune de l’Edifice de Monsr. Jabba. (Lower Plate)

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Theseus Fighting the Centaur Bianor, by Antoine-Louis Barye

Theseus Fighting the Centaur Bianor

Antoine-Louis Barye · modeled 1849, cast ca. 1867

Public domainThe Met
Entablement Dorique, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Entablement Dorique

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora with lid

Terracotta amphora with lid

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Entablement Dorique, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Entablement Dorique

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta krater, by Workshop of New York MMA 34.11.2

Terracotta krater

Workshop of New York MMA 34.11.2 · ca. 775 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Mausoleum for Czar Paul I (1754-1801) in the Park of Pavlovsk, near Saint Petersburg, Russia: Side Elevation, by Thomas de Thomon (Jean-François Thomas), French, active in Russia, 1759–1813

The Mausoleum for Czar Paul I (1754-1801) in the Park of Pavlovsk, near Saint Petersburg, Russia: Side Elevation

Thomas de Thomon (Jean-François Thomas), French, active in Russia, 1759–1813 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation du costé de la Maison et de l’edifice de Monsr. Jabba coe il a esté proietté et comme estoit la premiere pensée de l’Architecte (Upper Plate) / Elevation de la demy Lune du dedans de la Cour de l’Edifice de Monsr. Jabba. (Lower Plate), by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Elevation du costé de la Maison et de l’edifice de Monsr. Jabba coe il a esté proietté et comme estoit la premiere pensée de l’Architecte (Upper Plate) / Elevation de la demy Lune du dedans de la Cour de l’Edifice de Monsr. Jabba. (Lower Plate)

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L’ORDRE DORIQUE, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

L’ORDRE DORIQUE

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 12894 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-28 18:24 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.