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 “Part of a sistrum” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:57 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.
Part of a sistrum

Part of a sistrum

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sistrum alfredensis

Sistrum alfredensis

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sistrum

Sistrum

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sistrum ferrugineum rubidum

Sistrum ferrugineum rubidum

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Vase After the Antique, by Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835

Vase After the Antique

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Buddha

Seated Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hathor emblem from a sistrum

Hathor emblem from a sistrum

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Five chalices, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Five chalices

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaikuntha Vishnu

Vaikuntha Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Part of Sheet 5 of a Drawing Book, Masks and Part of a Trophy, by Carlo Maria Giudici, Italian, 1723 - 1804

Part of Sheet 5 of a Drawing Book, Masks and Part of a Trophy

Carlo Maria Giudici, Italian, 1723 - 1804 · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso of a Bodhisattva, by Sahri-Bahlol Workshop

Torso of a Bodhisattva

Sahri-Bahlol Workshop · ca. 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain

Design for a Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upper part of a female figure

Upper part of a female figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing: Study of a left hand holding a small disk

Drawing: Study of a left hand holding a small disk

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upper part of a naos sistrum

Upper part of a naos sistrum

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Door in a garden wall, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Door in a garden wall

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1754

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)

One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
View from Belalp, Switzerland, Part Two, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

View from Belalp, Switzerland, Part Two

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 28, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sistrum with a dedication referring to a king

Sistrum with a dedication referring to a king

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eight designs for altar mensae, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Eight designs for altar mensae

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of Hevajra

Bust of Hevajra

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Architecture and Figure Studies, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Architecture and Figure Studies

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–90

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. 30362 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. 3855620 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-26 22:57 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.