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 with Warrior Resting” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:57 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 with Warrior Resting

Panel with Warrior Resting

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
A Seated Muse, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

A Seated Muse

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1800-1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Warrior, by Chiriquí artist(s)

Warrior

Chiriquí artist(s) · 300–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Venus at the Forge of Vulcan, Design for a Sideboard Panel, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Venus at the Forge of Vulcan, Design for a Sideboard Panel

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · ca. 1700

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
Ceiling Cabinet Dedicated to War, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceiling Cabinet Dedicated to War, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

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

Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome

Master of the Munich Marian Panels · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosaic floor panel

Mosaic floor panel

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Panel with Battle Scene, by William Pitts

Panel with Battle Scene

William Pitts · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Warrior (Musketeer)

Warrior (Musketeer)

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
The Small Horse

The Small Horse

Artist not stated in the record · 1505

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
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

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
"Les Francais en Egypte" [French in Egypt], by Jean-Julien Deltil, 1791 – 1863

"Les Francais en Egypte" [French in Egypt]

Jean-Julien Deltil, 1791 – 1863 · ca. 1814

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
cabinet

cabinet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Hans Memling

Portrait of a Young Man

Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

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
Wall Elevation of the Bedroom of the Prince de Rohan, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, by Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754

Wall Elevation of the Bedroom of the Prince de Rohan, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris

Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · 1735–36

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation of Christ, by Simon Marmion

The Lamentation of Christ

Simon Marmion · ca. 1473

Public domainThe Met
Folding screen

Folding screen

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

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. 552 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 255763 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-29 07:57 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.