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 from a Casket with a bird” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:22 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 from a Casket with a bird

Plaque from a Casket with a bird

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Chasse with Saints and Angels

Chasse with Saints and Angels

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morgan Casket

Morgan Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Casket, by Frances Basnet

Casket

Frances Basnet · 1654

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket

Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 1545–47

Public domainThe Met
Casket

Casket

Artist not stated in the record · first half 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket, by R. & S. Garrard & Co.

Casket

R. & S. Garrard & Co. · 1875 or 1876

Public domainThe Met
The Elevation of a Reliquary of a Skull

The Elevation of a Reliquary of a Skull

Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket, by Michel Redlin

Casket

Michel Redlin · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Casket

Casket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket, by Wenzel Jamnitzer

Casket

Wenzel Jamnitzer · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket

Casket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–65

Public domainThe Met
Casket

Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Trophée de Chasse, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Trophée de Chasse

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1775–76

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket with Erotes and Animals

Casket with Erotes and Animals

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Coffre a Racine, by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

Coffre a Racine

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1774–88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Descent from the Cross

Plaque with the Descent from the Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Public domainThe Met
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket Plaque

Casket Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1000

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design with Hercules, by François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693

Ornament Design with Hercules

François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewel casket

Jewel casket

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th 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
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. 5723 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. 2450856 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 19:22 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.