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 “Orthostat relief: lion attacking a deer” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:43 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.
Orthostat relief: lion attacking a deer

Orthostat relief: lion attacking a deer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th−9th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Woven Silk and Embroidery, with Lion attacking a Deer (recto) and Woman swallowed by Fish (verso), by Unknown

Design for Woven Silk and Embroidery, with Lion attacking a Deer (recto) and Woman swallowed by Fish (verso)

Unknown · late 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene

Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th−9th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone Fragment from a Frieze with a Lion Attacking an Ibex

Limestone Fragment from a Frieze with a Lion Attacking an Ibex

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Hunting Scenes

Panel with Hunting Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta brazier fragment

Terracotta brazier fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 540–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Lion Hunt

The Lion Hunt

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Lion Hunt, by Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1678 – after 1738

Lion Hunt

Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1678 – after 1738 · 1730–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, by Antonio Rossellino

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Antonio Rossellino · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orthostat relief: winged human-headed lion

Orthostat relief: winged human-headed lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th−9th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Deer attacked by Lynxes [above left]; Deer Hunt with Hounds Tracking [below left]; Cloelia and her Companions escape Porsena's Camp [above right]; Aeneas and Dido Shelter in a Cave [below right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Deer attacked by Lynxes [above left]; Deer Hunt with Hounds Tracking [below left]; Cloelia and her Companions escape Porsena's Camp [above right]; Aeneas and Dido Shelter in a Cave [below right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1596–1598

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt

Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds

Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lion Attacking a Gavial Crocodile, by Isidore-Jules Bonheur, French, b. Bordeaux, 1827–1901

Lion Attacking a Gavial Crocodile

Isidore-Jules Bonheur, French, b. Bordeaux, 1827–1901 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a terracotta oinochoe (jug), by Altenburg Painter

Fragment of a terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Altenburg Painter · ca. 560–550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar), by New York Nessos Painter

Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)

New York Nessos Painter · second quarter of the 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Carved Relief and Pediment, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Designs for a Carved Relief and Pediment

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

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. 69 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 1778868 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 2026-08-31 21:43 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.