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 “Project for a Holy Water Font” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:10 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.
Baptismal Font

Baptismal Font

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1155–70

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Holy Water Font

Project for a Holy Water Font

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baptismal Font

Baptismal Font

Artist not stated in the record · 1137

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Holy Water Font

Project for a Holy Water Font

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy-water Font, by Guglielmus

Holy-water Font

Guglielmus · ca. 1160–65

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Holy Water Font

Project for a Holy Water Font

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Situla (Bucket for Holy Water)

Situla (Bucket for Holy Water)

Artist not stated in the record · 860–880

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Holy Water Stoup, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Holy Water Stoup

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · ca.1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy-water stoup with relief of Mary of Egypt, by Giovanni Giardini

Holy-water stoup with relief of Mary of Egypt

Giovanni Giardini · ca. 1702

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Holy Water Spout

Design for a Holy Water Spout

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Holy Water Stoup

Design for a Holy Water Stoup

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Tables, Mirror Frames, Holy Water Stoups and a Clock, Plate 15 from "Nuove Inventioni d'Ornamenti", by Filippo Passerini, Italian, about 1638 – 1698

Designs for Tables, Mirror Frames, Holy Water Stoups and a Clock, Plate 15 from "Nuove Inventioni d'Ornamenti"

Filippo Passerini, Italian, about 1638 – 1698 · 1698

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Bénitier, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Bénitier

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Public domainThe Met
Calice. Goupillon. Bénitier., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Calice. Goupillon. Bénitier.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baptism of Christ, by Alessandro Algardi

Baptism of Christ

Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Calice. Goupillon. Bénitier., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Calice. Goupillon. Bénitier.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze man and centaur

Bronze man and centaur

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Holy Water Spouts, from "Inventions Pour Faire des Plaques"

Design for Holy Water Spouts, from "Inventions Pour Faire des Plaques"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hot Water Spout

Design for a Hot Water Spout

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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. 949 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2523656 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-28 09:10 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.