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. 23 shown for “Plaque in the Form of a Slaughtered Ox” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 11:15 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.
Plaque in the Form of a Slaughtered Ox

Plaque in the Form of a Slaughtered Ox

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plaque with ox head

Plaque with ox head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1050-221 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

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

Public domainThe Met
Sketches from Narragansett, Rhode Island, by Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920

Sketches from Narragansett, Rhode Island

Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase (Plate 6 of a Series), by Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567

Vase (Plate 6 of a Series)

Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Bracket

Bracket

Artist not stated in the record · 1755–60

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
Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Artist not stated in the record · 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate 32, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book), by Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618

Plate 32, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618 · 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with equestrian ọ́bà (king) and attendants, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque with equestrian ọ́bà (king) and attendants

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Public domainThe Met
Vase Design, by Charles Dupuis, French, active 1760 – 1791

Vase Design

Charles Dupuis, French, active 1760 – 1791 · ca. 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of a Bound Ox

Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of a Bound Ox

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1207–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Leather Glove

Leather Glove

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project), by Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798

View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project)

Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Flyer advertising a protest against slaughter in Rhodesia, by Youth Against War & Fascism, American, founded 1961

Flyer advertising a protest against slaughter in Rhodesia

Youth Against War & Fascism, American, founded 1961 · January 29, 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of an Ox Head

Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of an Ox Head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1207–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Garden, by Jan David Zocher the Younger, 1791–1870

Design for a Garden

Jan David Zocher the Younger, 1791–1870 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque from a Reliquary, by Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket

Plaque from a Reliquary

Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

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. 699 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. 7483691 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 11:15 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.