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. 17 shown for “Panel with the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper” — 29 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:44 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 the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper

Panel with the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper

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
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
Ceiling in Hadrian's Villa, near Tivoli, by Luigi Rossini, Italian, 1790 – 1857

Ceiling in Hadrian's Villa, near Tivoli

Luigi Rossini, Italian, 1790 – 1857 · 1820–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yashoda with the Infant Krishna

Yashoda with the Infant Krishna

Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Designs, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Arabesque Ornament Designs

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

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
Arabesque Ornament Designs, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Arabesque Ornament Designs

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing male worshiper

Standing male worshiper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2900–2600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lectern used by Reverend Dr. Clay Evans at Fellowship Baptist Church

Lectern used by Reverend Dr. Clay Evans at Fellowship Baptist Church

Artist not stated in the record · 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
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
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Scenes from the Life of Saint Andrew

Scenes from the Life of Saint Andrew

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret, by Andrea da Giona

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret

Andrea da Giona · 1434

Public domainThe Met
Group statue with a Bes-image plucking a lyre

Group statue with a Bes-image plucking a lyre

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coffin of Khnumnakht

Coffin of Khnumnakht

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
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. 675 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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:44 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.