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 “Ornament Frontal” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:37 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.
Ornament Frontal

Ornament Frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs, by Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802

Designs for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs

Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare Frontal, by Huastec artist(s)

Earflare Frontal

Huastec artist(s) · 900–1300 CE

Public domainThe Met
"Five Different Fillets," Plate 6 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs", by Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650

"Five Different Fillets," Plate 6 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"

Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare with spider, by Moche artist(s)

Earflare with spider

Moche artist(s) · 200–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Frieze with winged female figure and two grotesque roosters

Frieze with winged female figure and two grotesque roosters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare Frontal, by Moche artist

Earflare Frontal

Moche artist · 250-850 CE

Public domainThe Met
Chased Silver Medallion, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543

Chased Silver Medallion

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare Frontal, by Moche artist

Earflare Frontal

Moche artist · 250-850 CE

Public domainThe Met
Chased Silver Medallion, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543

Chased Silver Medallion

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ear flare frontal, by Moche artist(s)

Ear flare frontal

Moche artist(s) · 3rd–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Chased Silver Medallion, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543

Chased Silver Medallion

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ear flare frontal, by Moche artist(s)

Ear flare frontal

Moche artist(s) · 200–600

Public domainThe Met
Sopha Orné de Sculpture et totalement fini, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Sopha Orné de Sculpture et totalement fini

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare Frontal

Earflare Frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Sopha Orné de Sculpture et totalement fini, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Sopha Orné de Sculpture et totalement fini

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare Frontal

Earflare Frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–7th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Costé des croisées d’une chambre a coucher dont le lit est en niche, by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

Costé des croisées d’une chambre a coucher dont le lit est en niche

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1686–1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare Frontal

Earflare Frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Altar frontal

Altar frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare Frontal

Earflare Frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Altar frontal

Altar frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare Frontal

Earflare Frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Altar frontal

Altar frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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. 186 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. 34418 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-06 15:37 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.