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 “Ornamental Mask” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:54 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.
Ornamental mask

Ornamental mask

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ritual Performance, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Ritual Performance

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Mask

Ornamental Mask

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

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design, by Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715

Ceiling Design

Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715 · 1700–15

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

Mask

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Vertical Panels, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Designs for Two Vertical Panels

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738–45

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

Mask

Olmec artist(s) · 1000–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament with Mask and Grotesque Figures, by Heinrich Aldegrever, German, 1502 - ca. 1561

Ornament with Mask and Grotesque Figures

Heinrich Aldegrever, German, 1502 - ca. 1561 · 1550

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

Funerary mask

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

Public domainThe Met
Coat of Arms of the Grand Duke of Tuscany: Ornament with a Lion Mask, No. 6 from "Raccolta di varii cappriccii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti"

Coat of Arms of the Grand Duke of Tuscany: Ornament with a Lion Mask, No. 6 from "Raccolta di varii cappriccii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti"

Artist not stated in the record · 1646

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

Face

Olmec artist(s) · 900–400 BCE

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
Ornament with Mask

Ornament with Mask

Artist not stated in the record · mid-3rd millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Braziers and Ornament Designs, by Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713

Braziers and Ornament Designs

Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1713

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Mask

Ornamental Mask

Artist not stated in the record · before 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Braziers and Ornament Designs, by Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713

Braziers and Ornament Designs

Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1713

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental mask

Ornamental mask

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

Public domainThe Met
Braziers and Ornament Designs, by Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713

Braziers and Ornament Designs

Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1713

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

Mask

Calima (Ilama) artist · 1000–100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Braziers and Ornament Designs, by Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713

Braziers and Ornament Designs

Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1713

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Masked Figure

Plaque with Masked Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Braziers and Ornament Designs, by Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713

Braziers and Ornament Designs

Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1713

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Masked Figure

Plaque with Masked Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass in the Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy, by Wouter Crabeth I, Dutch, active 1559 – d. 1589

Design for Stained Glass in the Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy

Wouter Crabeth I, Dutch, active 1559 – d. 1589 · ca. 1570-80

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. 528 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. 39245 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 15:54 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.