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 Reliquary” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:20 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.
Reliquary

Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Reliquary

Project for a Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary

Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for a reliquary shrine, with alternative suggestions, intended to be executed in stone

Project for a reliquary shrine, with alternative suggestions, intended to be executed in stone

Artist not stated in the record · Early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Shrine, by Jean de Touyl

Reliquary Shrine

Jean de Touyl · ca. 1325–50

Public domainThe Met
Project for a reliquary, intended to be executed in wood

Project for a reliquary, intended to be executed in wood

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Bust of Saint Yrieix

Reliquary Bust of Saint Yrieix

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–40, with later grill

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary for a Thorn of the Crown

Design for a Reliquary for a Thorn of the Crown

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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
Designs for Reliquaries

Designs for Reliquaries

Artist not stated in the record · 1698

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

Enamel from a Reliquary

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

Public domainThe Met
Sketched for a Reliquary, by Filippo Passarini, 1636–1698

Sketched for a Reliquary

Filippo Passarini, 1636–1698 · 1698

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher

Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1375–1425

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary

Design for a Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary figure, by Mbete-Kota artist

Reliquary figure

Mbete-Kota artist · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for a Reliquary

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arm Reliquary

Arm Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1230

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Reliquary

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara, by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara

Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Reliquary

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary vitrine

Reliquary vitrine

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Reliquary

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1802

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
Project for an Altar

Project for an Altar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

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. 2745 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2502601 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 13:20 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.