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 throne with deity on a bull” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:15 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 throne with deity on a bull

Part of a throne with deity on a bull

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fifteen Sketches for a Throne, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Fifteen Sketches for a Throne

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bull

Bull

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Historical Buddha Shakyamuni with the bodhisattvas Fugen (Samantabhadra) and Monju (Manjushri)

Historical Buddha Shakyamuni with the bodhisattvas Fugen (Samantabhadra) and Monju (Manjushri)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

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
Throne, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Throne

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying the bull

Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying the bull

Artist not stated in the record · mid-2nd–early 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Parts of a Coach

Design for Parts of a Coach

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bull, by Giambologna

Bull

Giambologna · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Details in Classical and Pseudo-Classical Style, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Architectural Details in Classical and Pseudo-Classical Style

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trotting horse, by Giambologna

Trotting horse

Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design with Figures, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Ornament Design with Figures

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Throne of the Priest of Bacchus, after Ancient Marble

Design for a Throne of the Priest of Bacchus, after Ancient Marble

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger with Hilt in the Form of a Blue Bull (Nilgai)

Dagger with Hilt in the Form of a Blue Bull (Nilgai)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin With the Child, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Virgin With the Child

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banjo, by Hercules McCord

Banjo

Hercules McCord · ca. 1884

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Side Chapel of the Congregation of St. Roch in Rome

Elevation of a Side Chapel of the Congregation of St. Roch in Rome

Artist not stated in the record · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaikuntha Vishnu

Vaikuntha Vishnu

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

Public domainThe Met
Tiraz embroidery

Tiraz embroidery

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rape of Europa and Mercury and the Three Graces, by Lambertus Vrythoff

The Rape of Europa and Mercury and the Three Graces

Lambertus Vrythoff · case ca. 1645, movement ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Char de Ceres., by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Char de Ceres.

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant with Woman on Throne

Design for a Pendant with Woman on Throne

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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. 15042 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. 3996963 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 22:15 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.