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 “Panel fragment” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 14:08 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.
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel fragment

Panel fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel fragment

Panel fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass cameo panel fragment

Glass cameo panel fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1–25 CE

Public domainThe Met
Dress panel fragment

Dress panel fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel fragment with the god Shiva/Oesho

Panel fragment with the god Shiva/Oesho

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Panel fragment

Panel fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Panel fragment

Panel fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Panel fragment

Panel fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel Fragment

Panel Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Les Vues d'Italie (Views of Italy), by Dufour et Leroy

Les Vues d'Italie (Views of Italy)

Dufour et Leroy · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel Fragment

Panel Fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of panel

Fragment of panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel Fragment

Panel Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of panel

Fragment of panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel fragment

Panel fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of paneling

Fragment of paneling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel Fragment

Panel Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel and fragments

Panel and fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel Fragment

Panel Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Decorative panel

Decorative panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1845–1850

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. 830 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 46775 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-09 14:08 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.