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 Cover for an Icon of the Virgin” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:21 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 Cover for an Icon of the Virgin

Panel from a Cover for an Icon of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid- to late 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Cover for an Icon of the Virgin

Panel from a Cover for an Icon of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Cover for an Icon of the Virgin

Panel from a Cover for an Icon of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Cover for an Icon of the Virgin

Panel from a Cover for an Icon of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · 15th-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Cover for an Icon of the Virgin

Panel from a Cover for an Icon of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Altarpiece, by Unidentified

Altarpiece

Unidentified · 1100-1200

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

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

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · ca. 1630-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 17th century

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
Design for a sedan chair

Design for a sedan chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1770-1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with the Virgin from an Icon Frame

Medallion with the Virgin from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion

Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century (ivory); late 11th century (setting)

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 16th-early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church

Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–825

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fabric, Probably for a Floor Covering, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for a Fabric, Probably for a Floor Covering

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

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. 6346 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 4050160 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 23:21 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.