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 Scenes from the Story of Joshua” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:13 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 Scenes from the Story of Joshua

Plaque with Scenes from the Story of Joshua

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
Plaques with Scenes from the Story of Joshua

Plaques with Scenes from the Story of Joshua

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1000

Public domainThe Met
From a frieze called "The Pines", by Addison B. Le Boutellier, 1872 – 1951

From a frieze called "The Pines"

Addison B. Le Boutellier, 1872 – 1951 · ca. 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket Plaque

Casket Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1000

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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
Hand Mirror with Scenes from the Story of Medea

Hand Mirror with Scenes from the Story of Medea

Artist not stated in the record · 1561

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
L’ASTRONOMIE / LA GÉOGRAPHIE

L’ASTRONOMIE / LA GÉOGRAPHIE

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque, by Chelsea Keramic Art Works

Plaque

Chelsea Keramic Art Works · ca. 1878–82

Public domainThe Met
Design for a painted ceiling, by Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838

Design for a painted ceiling

Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I

Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 962–968

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

Title Page

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from an Ivory Casket with Scenes of the Story of Joshua

Panel from an Ivory Casket with Scenes of the Story of Joshua

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1000

Public domainThe Met
Scenic Plaque, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Scenic Plaque

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1913

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
Belisarius, by Jean-Louis-Toussaint Caron (French, 1790-1832), French, 1790 – 1832

Belisarius

Jean-Louis-Toussaint Caron (French, 1790-1832), French, 1790 – 1832 · 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair, by Sir Joshua Reynolds

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Public domainThe Met
Street Scene in Popayan, Colombia, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Street Scene in Popayan, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 9, 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Theodosius Arrives at Ephesus, from a Scene from the Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus

Theodosius Arrives at Ephesus, from a Scene from the Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1210

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by F. Pieters

Textile

F. Pieters · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1790s

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. 1011 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. 3094647 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 2026-08-27 16:13 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.