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. 20 shown for “Mitra mitra” — 54 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 20:03 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.
Bronze mitra (belly guard)

Bronze mitra (belly guard)

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mitra mitra

Mitra mitra

Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 2017

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mitra (belly guard)

Bronze mitra (belly guard)

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze mitra (belly guard)

Bronze mitra (belly guard)

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Episcopal Mitre

Episcopal Mitre

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 81: Erysichthon Selling his Daughter (Diversas induta Mitra diversis divenditur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', by Antonio Tempesta

Plate 81: Erysichthon Selling his Daughter (Diversas induta Mitra diversis divenditur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

Antonio Tempesta · 1606

Public domainThe Met
Mitra aurora

Mitra aurora

Artist not stated in the record · 22 May 2017

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ before Caiphas, from "The Passion", by Lucas Cranach the Elder

Christ before Caiphas, from "The Passion"

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Public domainThe Met
Mitra aurora

Mitra aurora

Artist not stated in the record · 22 May 2017

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse and rider

Horse and rider

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mitra aurora

Mitra aurora

Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 2017

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Preaching the First Sermon at Sarnath

Buddha Preaching the First Sermon at Sarnath

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Mitra aurora

Mitra aurora

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 2017

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Conversion and Ordination of Nanda

The Conversion and Ordination of Nanda

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Calothrix anomala Mitra in Pandey

Calothrix anomala Mitra in Pandey

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Molded Plaque Depicting a Mandala of the Eight Bodhisattvas

Molded Plaque Depicting a Mandala of the Eight Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Mitra rorata

Mitra rorata

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Ceiling, by Faustino Trebbi

Design for a Ceiling

Faustino Trebbi

Public domainThe Met
Mitra (Tiara) rehderi

Mitra (Tiara) rehderi

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mitre

Mitre

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 167 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 20:03 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.