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 from a Box with Scenes from Romance Literature” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:10 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 from a Box with Scenes from Romance Literature

Panel from a Box with Scenes from Romance Literature

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Box with Scenes from Romance Literature

Panel from a Box with Scenes from Romance Literature

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
"Ha! I Like Not That", by John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

"Ha! I Like Not That"

John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chapel Wall, by Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630

Design for a Chapel Wall

Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630 · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

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

Public domainThe Met
Scenic Panel from 'Scènes Siciliennes', by Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797

Scenic Panel from 'Scènes Siciliennes'

Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797 · 1840–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

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
Scenic

Scenic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Panel with Grotesque Design and Scenes of the Labors of Hercules, by Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840

Panel with Grotesque Design and Scenes of the Labors of Hercules

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Rectangular Box

Panel from a Rectangular Box

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–early 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimney Wall with Lacquered Panels and Porcelain from "Nouvelles Chiminees Faittes en Plusieur en Droits de la Hollande et Autres Provinces du Dessin de D. Marot", by Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752

Design for a Chimney Wall with Lacquered Panels and Porcelain from "Nouvelles Chiminees Faittes en Plusieur en Droits de la Hollande et Autres Provinces du Dessin de D. Marot"

Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome, by Master of the Munich Bavarian Panels

Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome

Master of the Munich Bavarian Panels · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Interior Detail of the Teatro Vaccai, Telentino, by Giuseppe Lucatelli, Italian, 1751 – 1828

Interior Detail of the Teatro Vaccai, Telentino

Giuseppe Lucatelli, Italian, 1751 – 1828 · 1790

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

Panel with Hunting Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Theodosius Arrives at Ephesus, from a Scene from the Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus

Theodosius Arrives at Ephesus, from a Scene from the Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1210

Public domainThe Met
Paul et Virginia

Paul et Virginia

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

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. 1822 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. 2119514 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-27 23:10 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.