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 of a Portable Shrine with Karttikeya, the God of War” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:30 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 of a Portable Shrine with Karttikeya, the God of War

Panel of a Portable Shrine with Karttikeya, the God of War

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Three Paneling Designs, by François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797

Three Paneling Designs

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven

Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Karttikeya, the God of War

Karttikeya, the God of War

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

Public domainThe Met
MARS OU LA GUERRE, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

MARS OU LA GUERRE

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Karttikeya, the God of War

Karttikeya, the God of War

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Panel with a Double Cartouche Showing a River God, a Nymph, and a Fountain, by Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775

Ornament Panel with a Double Cartouche Showing a River God, a Nymph, and a Fountain

Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1743-1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of a Portable Buddhist Shrine with Dancer and Musician Celebrants

Panel of a Portable Buddhist Shrine with Dancer and Musician Celebrants

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Mahdi flag

Mahdi flag

Artist not stated in the record · 1882-1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration

Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Project for a reliquary shrine, with alternative suggestions, intended to be executed in stone

Project for a reliquary shrine, with alternative suggestions, intended to be executed in stone

Artist not stated in the record · Early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Shrine with the Virgin and Child

Folding Shrine with the Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Panel Design, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Arabesque Panel Design

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1775–88

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
Léda, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Léda

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenjin engi emaki)

Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenjin engi emaki)

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Design with Decorated Panels, Suitable for a Gallery, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Chimneypiece Design with Decorated Panels, Suitable for a Gallery

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1737-1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Design of a Console Table with a Mirror

Design of a Console Table with a Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 1750

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. 144 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. 3969039 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 12:30 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.