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 in the form of a standing bull” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 16:02 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.
Bull

Bull

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament in the form of a standing bull

Ornament in the form of a standing bull

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

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

Ornament

Maya artist(s) · 400–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a Design for a Nef, or Fantastic Centerpiece in the Form of A Boat

Fragment of a Design for a Nef, or Fantastic Centerpiece in the Form of A Boat

Artist not stated in the record · 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Umberto Boccioni · 1913, cast 1950

Public domainThe Met
Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

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

Ornament

Maya artist(s) · 3rd–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Le Feu, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

Le Feu

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair), by Alessandro Algardi

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)

Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Gilt Bronze Ornament, by Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725

Design for a Gilt Bronze Ornament

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725 · 1680–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morgan Casket

Morgan Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Frame

Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1720–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta vase in the form of a bull's head

Terracotta vase in the form of a bull's head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bird Cage in the Form of a Church

Bird Cage in the Form of a Church

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger with Hilt in the Form of a Blue Bull (Nilgai)

Dagger with Hilt in the Form of a Blue Bull (Nilgai)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Ornament

Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Handle Depicting a Lion Subduing a Nubian

Handle Depicting a Lion Subduing a Nubian

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase (Plate 6 of a Series), by Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567

Vase (Plate 6 of a Series)

Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Vishnu as Keshava, by Dasoja of Balligrama

Standing Vishnu as Keshava

Dasoja of Balligrama · first quarter of the 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate 43, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book), by Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618

Plate 43, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618 · 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bull, by Giambologna

Bull

Giambologna · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762

Ornamental Vase Design

Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1738-1749

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. 5111 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7484740 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-08 16:02 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.