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. 21 shown for “Plaque with God Creating the Animals” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:50 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 God Creating the Animals

Plaque with God Creating the Animals

Artist not stated in the record · 1084

Public domainThe Met
The Crucifixion, Study after Ludovica Carracci, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Crucifixion, Study after Ludovica Carracci

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

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
Basket with God’s Eye and Handle, by Ira Blount

Basket with God’s Eye and Handle

Ira Blount · late 20th-early 21st Century

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
Egg Basket with God's Eye, by Ira Blount

Egg Basket with God's Eye

Ira Blount · 2006

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
Plaque for Vietnam War service presented to Major Colin L. Powell, by 1st Infantry Regiment

Plaque for Vietnam War service presented to Major Colin L. Powell

1st Infantry Regiment · September 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 12th 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

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Plaque for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin L. Powell, by United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775

Plaque for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin L. Powell

United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775 · ca. 1989-1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

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

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–18th century

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
Melon-Shaped Basket with God’s Eye, by Ira Blount

Melon-Shaped Basket with God’s Eye

Ira Blount · late 20th-early 21st Century

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
NATIONAL-MILITARY-HOME-OHIO, by Unidentified

NATIONAL-MILITARY-HOME-OHIO

Unidentified · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Crib of the Infant Jesus

Crib of the Infant Jesus

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Calligraphic Plaque

Calligraphic Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · probably late 17th 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. 3018 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. 2411674 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:50 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.