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 frontal with alternative suggestions” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 19:06 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.
Earflare Frontal, by Huastec artist(s)

Earflare Frontal

Huastec artist(s) · 900–1300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Project for a frontal with alternative suggestions

Project for a frontal with alternative suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare with spider, by Moche artist(s)

Earflare with spider

Moche artist(s) · 200–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Carlo Amati, Italian, 1776 – 1852

Drawing

Carlo Amati, Italian, 1776 – 1852 · ca. 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet frontal with panels from two Embriachi caskets, by Baldassare degli Embriachi

Cabinet frontal with panels from two Embriachi caskets

Baldassare degli Embriachi · ca. 1400–1409

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions

Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions

Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Project for the Decoration of an Entablature with Alternative Suggestions

Project for the Decoration of an Entablature with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Project for a sepulchral monument. With alternative suggestions.

Project for a sepulchral monument. With alternative suggestions.

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler), by Vincent van Gogh

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)

Vincent van Gogh · 1887

Public domainThe Met
Recto: Design for a Bottle with a Handle

Recto: Design for a Bottle with a Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

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
Project for a Chimneypiece with Alternative Suggestions

Project for a Chimneypiece with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for the entrance wall of a salon with alternative suggestions, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Project for the entrance wall of a salon with alternative suggestions

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1760–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paris, by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Paris

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

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
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, by Théodore Géricault

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Crest with Alternate Suggestions

Project for a Crest with Alternate Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare Frontal

Earflare Frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece with Alternative Suggestions

Design for a Chimneypiece with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1775

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. 1343 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. 2591146 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-06 19:06 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.