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 “Nagaraja (Serpent King)” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 02:19 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.
Nagaraja (Serpent King)

Nagaraja (Serpent King)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. second quarter of the 5th century

Public domainThe Met
"Le Villageois et le Serpente" from La Fontaine's Fables

"Le Villageois et le Serpente" from La Fontaine's Fables

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Nagaraja (Serpent King)

Standing Nagaraja (Serpent King)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid- 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Trichogramma raoi

Trichogramma raoi

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Balarama or Nagaraja (Serpent King)

Standing Balarama or Nagaraja (Serpent King)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-5th century

Public domainThe Met
Trichogramma pallidiventris

Trichogramma pallidiventris

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1969 to 31 Oct 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nagini (Serpent Queen or Consort of Nagaraja)

Nagini (Serpent Queen or Consort of Nagaraja)

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter of the 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Trichogramma agariae

Trichogramma agariae

Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1969 to 31 May 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nose ornament with intertwined creatures, by Moche artist(s)

Nose ornament with intertwined creatures

Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Trichogramma hesperidis

Trichogramma hesperidis

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1969 to 31 Oct 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Red jasper ring stone

Red jasper ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Trichogramma guamensis

Trichogramma guamensis

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Masonic Armchair

Masonic Armchair

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–90

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Protected by a Seven-headed Naga

Buddha Protected by a Seven-headed Naga

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Cavemen Chasing Elephants [above]; The King of Persia Hunting [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Cavemen Chasing Elephants [above]; The King of Persia Hunting [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Maya artist(s)

Bowl

Maya artist(s) · 500-600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Trichogramma chilotraeae

Trichogramma chilotraeae

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Drawings of the Myth of Apollo; Decoration of a Wall over a Mantel, Sala di Apollo, Palazzo Cavina, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Four Drawings of the Myth of Apollo; Decoration of a Wall over a Mantel, Sala di Apollo, Palazzo Cavina, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whistling vessel, by Maya artist(s)

Whistling vessel

Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration with Oriental Landscape, probably for Conservatory/Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Wall Decoration with Oriental Landscape, probably for Conservatory/Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus et Adonis, by Stefano della Bella

Venus et Adonis

Stefano della Bella · 1644

Public domainThe Met
Trichogramma poliae

Trichogramma poliae

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1968

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. 112 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. 63271 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-30 02:19 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.