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 with Four Angels” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 23:50 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 with Four Angels

Plaque with Four Angels

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Cornerstone plaque from the Bank of Finance, by Bank of Finance, American, 1964 - 1981

Cornerstone plaque from the Bank of Finance

Bank of Finance, American, 1964 - 1981 · 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Censing Angels

Plaque with Censing Angels

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170–80

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Plaque Depicting the Last Supper

Decorative Plaque Depicting the Last Supper

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crib of the Infant Jesus

Crib of the Infant Jesus

Artist not stated in the record · 15th 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
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Pentecost

Plaque with the Pentecost

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ivory decorative plaque

Ivory decorative plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Charger with Alexander the Great Defeating Darius Surrounded by the Four Continents

Charger with Alexander the Great Defeating Darius Surrounded by the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 1689

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
Memorial Window for Harriet M. Crall, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Memorial Window for Harriet M. Crall

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasse of Champagnat

Chasse of Champagnat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet

Cabinet

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists

Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1050

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Button

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Design for Renaissance-Style Sideboard in Plan and Elevation, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Renaissance-Style Sideboard in Plan and Elevation

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

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. 1203 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. 297011 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 2026-09-02 23:50 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.