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 “Plaque Showing a King in the Red Crown” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:11 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.
Plaque Showing a King in the Red Crown

Plaque Showing a King in the Red Crown

Artist not stated in the record · mid-8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
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Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of King Seti II Wearing the Blue Crown

Head of King Seti II Wearing the Blue Crown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Trimming

Trimming

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 500 BCE–450 CE

Public domainThe Met
King of Diamonds, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

King of Diamonds

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model of a Porch and Garden

Model of a Porch and Garden

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Audelco best musical production award for Champeen awarded to Melvin Van Peebles

Audelco best musical production award for Champeen awarded to Melvin Van Peebles

Artist not stated in the record · November 21, 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist, by Giovanni Baronzio

The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist

Giovanni Baronzio · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
Red straw hat with navy and white ribbon, by Unidentified

Red straw hat with navy and white ribbon

Unidentified · 1970s - 1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of candlesticks, by Jacques Demé

Pair of candlesticks

Jacques Demé · 1690–91

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Adoration of the Magi

Adoration of the Magi

Artist not stated in the record · 1500–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Alhambra" vase with lid, by Crown Derby

"Alhambra" vase with lid

Crown Derby · 1877–90

Public domainThe Met
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Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King Arthur (from the Heroes Tapestries)

King Arthur (from the Heroes Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Public domainThe Met
Trimming

Trimming

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque Depicting a Goddess or Queen, and on Opposite Side a King

Plaque Depicting a Goddess or Queen, and on Opposite Side a King

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by M.H. Birge & Sons Co., 1834

Frieze

M.H. Birge & Sons Co., 1834 · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a king in the red crown

Head of a king in the red crown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–545 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pittsburgh Pirates baseball cap worn by Willie Stargell

Pittsburgh Pirates baseball cap worn by Willie Stargell

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Alhambra" vase with lid, by Crown Derby

"Alhambra" vase with lid

Crown Derby · 1880s

Public domainThe Met
Trimming

Trimming

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th 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. 862 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 7483426 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-28 06:11 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.