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. 12 shown for “Plaque with an Eros” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:27 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Two Panels of Ornament Design, by Charles Errard, French, c. 1601 - 1689

Two Panels of Ornament Design

Charles Errard, French, c. 1601 - 1689 · 1664-1689

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Wall Decoration, Pompeiian Room, Palazzo Altieri, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for Wall Decoration, Pompeiian Room, Palazzo Altieri, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Friezes, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Designs for Friezes

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777-1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Porcelain Plaque for an Item of Furniture, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Porcelain Plaque for an Item of Furniture

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Audelco best musical production award for Champeen awarded to Melvin Van Peebles

Audelco best musical production award for Champeen awarded to Melvin Van Peebles

Artist not stated in the record · November 21, 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St.George and the Dragon by Raphael; Biblical Scene; Disposition by Caravaggio; Ero e Leandro; Love by Lambert Sustris; Spinning Girl by Domenico Fetti; Verso: Apollo and Muse by Poussin; Cupid by Corregio; St. Peter and St. John by Poussin; Madonna...., by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

St.George and the Dragon by Raphael; Biblical Scene; Disposition by Caravaggio; Ero e Leandro; Love by Lambert Sustris; Spinning Girl by Domenico Fetti; Verso: Apollo and Muse by Poussin; Cupid by Corregio; St. Peter and St. John by Poussin; Madonna....

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 313533 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-03 18:27 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.