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 “Raised relief fragment with part of an inscription” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:08 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.
Raised relief fragment with part of an inscription

Raised relief fragment with part of an inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon, by Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612

Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon

Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612 · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with the Annunciation

Relief with the Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor

Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2010–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile (fragment)

Wall tile (fragment)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

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
Stuart Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stuart Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Apollonius meeting the Messenger of the Brahmans [above]; Apollonius Ridding the People of Ephesus of a Plague Demon [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Apollonius meeting the Messenger of the Brahmans [above]; Apollonius Ridding the People of Ephesus of a Plague Demon [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1597

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Public domainThe Met
Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Door in a garden wall, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Door in a garden wall

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1754

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment with a Ship Under Sail

Relief Fragment with a Ship Under Sail

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2465–2458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Renaissance Monument in Benedictine Church, Fecamp, Normandy, by Auguste-Pierre Sainte-Marie Famin, French, 1776 – 1859

Renaissance Monument in Benedictine Church, Fecamp, Normandy

Auguste-Pierre Sainte-Marie Famin, French, 1776 – 1859 · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rim fragment of relief chalice with inscription and papyrus plants, associated with 1983.599

Rim fragment of relief chalice with inscription and papyrus plants, associated with 1983.599

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–721 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Funeral Decorations for King Louis XVI of France, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Funeral Decorations for King Louis XVI of France

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elijah in the Fiery Chariot, by Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs

Elijah in the Fiery Chariot

Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bedroom, Hotel de Mailly-Nesle, Paris, by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Design for a Bedroom, Hotel de Mailly-Nesle, Paris

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1770–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sunk Relief Fragment with Part of Offering Inscription and Wadjet Eye

Sunk Relief Fragment with Part of Offering Inscription and Wadjet Eye

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Altar Dedicated to a Virgin Martyr [St. Lucy?], by Unknown, Italian

Altar Dedicated to a Virgin Martyr [St. Lucy?]

Unknown, Italian · early 19th 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. 2135 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. 2919845 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 2026-08-27 04:08 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.