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 striding lion” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:32 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 striding lion

Panel with striding lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 604–562 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with striding lion

Panel with striding lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 604–562 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase (Plate 1 of a Series), by Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567

Vase (Plate 1 of a Series)

Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 1543

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lion

Lion

Artist not stated in the record · after 1200

Public domainThe Met
With Lion on Tambour-Style Opening

With Lion on Tambour-Style Opening

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

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

Public domainThe Met
Panel Design with a Centaur and a Lion Fighting, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Panel Design with a Centaur and a Lion Fighting

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · ca. 1651

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Proposed Design for the West Wall of the Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Proposed Design for the West Wall of the Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · ca. 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

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
Elevation of a Writing Desk [Bureau Plat], by André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732

Elevation of a Writing Desk [Bureau Plat]

André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732 · 1675–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Jerome with a lion, by Francesco Orlandini

Saint Jerome with a lion

Francesco Orlandini · 1547

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, Triangular Panel with Winged Lions and Two Roman Crowns, by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

Ornament Design, Triangular Panel with Winged Lions and Two Roman Crowns

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Panel with Lion Family

Relief Panel with Lion Family

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–1000

Public domainThe Met
Elevation d'une Porte entre deux Pilastres, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Elevation d'une Porte entre deux Pilastres

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon

Dragon

Artist not stated in the record · after 1200

Public domainThe Met
Figure of Africa

Figure of Africa

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Panel with Two Griffins Drinking from a Cup

Relief Panel with Two Griffins Drinking from a Cup

Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design for a Panel

Arabesque Design for a Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Isis nursing Horus on throne supported by striding lions

Isis nursing Horus on throne supported by striding lions

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Decoration d'une Porte à placards, traittée dans le même gout que la precedente., by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

Decoration d'une Porte à placards, traittée dans le même gout que la precedente.

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1686-1742

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. 244 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. 254732 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 02:32 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.