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 with mask motif” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 19:02 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.
Ornament with mask motif

Ornament with mask motif

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Face, by Olmec artist(s)

Face

Olmec artist(s) · 900–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
LES JARDINS DE BACHUS, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

LES JARDINS DE BACHUS

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask, by Tolita-Tumaco artist(s)

Mask

Tolita-Tumaco artist(s) · 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Stove, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Stove

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask, by Olmec artist(s)

Mask

Olmec artist(s) · 1000–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Title Page

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask

Mask

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Ornament and Panel Designs, by Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711

Ornament and Panel Designs

Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711 · ca.1670–ca.1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask, by Teotihuacan artist(s)

Mask

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 300–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask, by Teotihuacan artist(s)

Mask

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 3rd–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask, by Teotihuacan artist(s)

Mask

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 300–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Foliage with a Mask and a Bowl of Fruit (Autre, offrant au milieu d'en bas un mascaron...) Ornamental Foliage with an Old Man and Two Children, by Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567

Ornamental Foliage with a Mask and a Bowl of Fruit (Autre, offrant au milieu d'en bas un mascaron...) Ornamental Foliage with an Old Man and Two Children

Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · ca. 1545

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary mask, by Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

Funerary mask

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Designs, by Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711

Ornament Designs

Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711 · ca.1670–ca.1700

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

Ornament

Maya artist(s) · 400–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Designs, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Ceiling Designs

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design, by Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802

Arabesque Design

Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask, by Calima (Ilama) artist

Mask

Calima (Ilama) artist · 1000–100 BCE

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

Panel Designs of Grotesque Ornaments

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

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. 2529 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. 277659 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 19:02 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.