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 Standing Yakshi” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:24 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 Standing Yakshi

Plaque with Standing Yakshi

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

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
Ivory decorative plaque

Ivory decorative plaque

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

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 with the Pentecost

Plaque with the Pentecost

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

Public domainThe Met
Plaque, by Thomas Bentley, English, 1730 – 1780

Plaque

Thomas Bentley, English, 1730 – 1780 · ca. 1778

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
Button, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Button

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

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
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Studies for the Violet Sargent Bronze Plaque in the Art Institute of Chicago, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1848 – 1907

Studies for the Violet Sargent Bronze Plaque in the Art Institute of Chicago

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1848 – 1907 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Public domainThe Met
Ellis Gamble's Shop Card

Ellis Gamble's Shop Card

Artist not stated in the record · 1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Warrior and Attendants, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque with Warrior and Attendants

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

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
Plaque with the Baptism of Jesus

Plaque with the Baptism of Jesus

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

Public domainThe Met
Custom Mapex hanging 16-inch tom drum owned by Will Calhoun

Custom Mapex hanging 16-inch tom drum owned by Will Calhoun

Artist not stated in the record · 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta plaque

Terracotta plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Memorial Window, by John La Farge, American, 1835–1910

Design for a Memorial Window

John La Farge, American, 1835–1910 · 1880–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Icon with the Koimesis

Icon with the Koimesis

Artist not stated in the record · late 900s

Public domainThe Met
Bedroom in a Country Dacha, by Unknown

Bedroom in a Country Dacha

Unknown · 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vitrine Containing Twenty-Five Ornaments

Vitrine Containing Twenty-Five Ornaments

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Mantel clock

Mantel clock

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

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. 324 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. 257608 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-05 05:24 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.