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 “Model Stone Rocker from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 09:10 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.
Model Stone Rocker from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Model Stone Rocker from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Uhry and Luttgens Valve Gearing, Patent Model

Uhry and Luttgens Valve Gearing, Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpenter's Adze from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Carpenter's Adze from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gathering of Buddhas and bodhisattvas

Gathering of Buddhas and bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit

Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
1837 Mason's Patent Model of a Loom Temple

1837 Mason's Patent Model of a Loom Temple

Artist not stated in the record · 1837-07-22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Detail at the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, Lebanon, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Architectural Detail at the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, Lebanon

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 6, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit

Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Western Paradise of the Buddha Amitabha

Western Paradise of the Buddha Amitabha

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Rocker

Model Rocker

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Temples at Baalbek from the Roman Quarry, Lebanon, Part One, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Temples at Baalbek from the Roman Quarry, Lebanon, Part One

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 12, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model rocker

Model rocker

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Ointment Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Model Ointment Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Temples at Baalbek from the Roman Quarry, Lebanon, Part Two, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Temples at Baalbek from the Roman Quarry, Lebanon, Part Two

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 12, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Seive from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Model Seive from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Temples of Hera and Athena at Paestum, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Temples of Hera and Athena at Paestum, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Pick from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Model Pick from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Temple of Jupiter at Sunrise, Baalbek, Syria (Lebanon), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Temple of Jupiter at Sunrise, Baalbek, Syria (Lebanon)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 7, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Seive from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Model Seive from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Diorama with Model of Classical Temple Ruins

Diorama with Model of Classical Temple Ruins

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Tray from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Model Tray from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Classical Temple in a Landscape, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Classical Temple in a Landscape

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1805

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. 246 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. 2281802 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-29 09:10 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.