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. 16 shown for “Queen, from a group of Donor Figures including a King, Queen, and Prince” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 13:23 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.
Queen, from a group of Donor Figures including a King, Queen, and Prince

Queen, from a group of Donor Figures including a King, Queen, and Prince

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Study for Painted Decoration of a Ceiling, Casino de la Reina (Queen's Casino), Madrid, Spain, by Vicente López y Portaña, Spanish, 1772–1850

Study for Painted Decoration of a Ceiling, Casino de la Reina (Queen's Casino), Madrid, Spain

Vicente López y Portaña, Spanish, 1772–1850 · before 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Souvenir ribbon

Souvenir ribbon

Artist not stated in the record · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King, from a group of Donor Figures including a King, Queen, and Prince

King, from a group of Donor Figures including a King, Queen, and Prince

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Pompe funèbre de Polixène de Hesse-Rhinfels Reine de Sardaigne en l’église de Notre de Paris le XXIV Mars M. DCC. XXXV., by Paul-Ambroise Slodtz, French, 1702–1758

Pompe funèbre de Polixène de Hesse-Rhinfels Reine de Sardaigne en l’église de Notre de Paris le XXIV Mars M. DCC. XXXV.

Paul-Ambroise Slodtz, French, 1702–1758 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prince, from a group of Donor Figures including a King, Queen, and Prince

Prince, from a group of Donor Figures including a King, Queen, and Prince

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Scenes and figures in the career of Henri IV, by F. Pieters

Scenes and figures in the career of Henri IV

F. Pieters · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque Depicting a Goddess or Queen, and on Opposite Side a King

Plaque Depicting a Goddess or Queen, and on Opposite Side a King

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jewish Woman of Algiers, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Jewish Woman of Algiers

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, by Giambologna

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Public domainThe Met
Column Statue of a King

Column Statue of a King

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen

Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Enthroned Buddha Granting Boons

Enthroned Buddha Granting Boons

Artist not stated in the record · dated by inscription to ca. 600

Public domainThe Met
Menat necklace from Malqata

Menat necklace from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor, by Joos van Cleve

The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
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. 1336 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. 4296124 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 13:23 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.