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 the Trinity and the Dormition of the Virgin” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:11 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 the Trinity and the Dormition of the Virgin

Plaque with the Trinity and the Dormition of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1410–20

Public domainThe Met
Glory with Trinity and Saints (recto), architectural plan for the church of Santa Maria d'Itria in Rome, by Francesco Manno, Italian, 1754 - 1831

Glory with Trinity and Saints (recto), architectural plan for the church of Santa Maria d'Itria in Rome

Francesco Manno, Italian, 1754 - 1831 · ca. 1814–1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin

Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
Adoration of the Magi

Adoration of the Magi

Artist not stated in the record · 1500–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition), by Tilman Heysacker

The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)

Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Commemorative Plaque for the Society of Farmers, by Christofle, French, founded 1830

Commemorative Plaque for the Society of Farmers

Christofle, French, founded 1830 · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church

Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–825

Public domainThe Met
Circular plaque with Buddhist trinity on obverse and brief inscription on reverse

Circular plaque with Buddhist trinity on obverse and brief inscription on reverse

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 500 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin, by Joan Avesta

Virgin

Joan Avesta · ca. 1370–90

Public domainThe Met
The Trinity and the Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul, by Gaetano Gandolfi, Italian, 1734–1802

The Trinity and the Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul

Gaetano Gandolfi, Italian, 1734–1802 · 1770–80

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
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
Title Page, by Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809

Title Page

Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque from a Reliquary, by Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket

Plaque from a Reliquary

Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

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
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
Plaque from American Society for Metals awarded to James A. Parsons Jr.

Plaque from American Society for Metals awarded to James A. Parsons Jr.

Artist not stated in the record · 1971

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
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
Icon with the Koimesis

Icon with the Koimesis

Artist not stated in the record · late 900s

Public domainThe Met
Basketball signed by Lusia Harris with wood base

Basketball signed by Lusia Harris with wood base

Artist not stated in the record · 1996

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. 5743 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. 3231256 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 23:11 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.