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 “Relief attributed to Petamenophis” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:38 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.
Relief attributed to Petamenophis

Relief attributed to Petamenophis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–640 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Kenyon Cox, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1 Mar 1848 - 3 Aug 1907

Kenyon Cox

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1 Mar 1848 - 3 Aug 1907 · 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Room from a hotel in the Cours d'Albret, Bordeaux, by Barthélemy Cabirol

Room from a hotel in the Cours d'Albret, Bordeaux

Barthélemy Cabirol · ca. 1785, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Adalbert John Volck Self-Portrait, by Adalbert John Volck, 14 Apr 1828 - 26 Mar 1912

Adalbert John Volck Self-Portrait

Adalbert John Volck, 14 Apr 1828 - 26 Mar 1912 · c. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief with a dancing maenad, by Kallimachos

Marble relief with a dancing maenad

Kallimachos · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
Theodore Roosevelt, by Sally James Farnham, 1869 - 1943

Theodore Roosevelt

Sally James Farnham, 1869 - 1943 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Achelous, by Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Hercules and Achelous

Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Panel, by Jean Louis Prieur, French, 1732 - 1795

Arabesque Panel

Jean Louis Prieur, French, 1732 - 1795 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar), by New York Nessos Painter

Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)

New York Nessos Painter · second quarter of the 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gathering of Buddhas and bodhisattvas

Gathering of Buddhas and bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Painter of the Woolly Satyrs

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Western Paradise of the Buddha Amitabha

Western Paradise of the Buddha Amitabha

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neptune Riding a Dolphin, by Peter Flötner

Neptune Riding a Dolphin

Peter Flötner · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
Cameo

Cameo

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars, Venus and Cupid with Vulcan at his forge (the Mantuan Roundel), by Gian Marco Cavalli

Mars, Venus and Cupid with Vulcan at his forge (the Mantuan Roundel)

Gian Marco Cavalli · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figural Group Depicting the "Peace of Basel", by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Allegorical Figural Group Depicting the "Peace of Basel"

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a marble relief with dancing maenads, by Kallimachos

Fragment of a marble relief with dancing maenads

Kallimachos · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamented Cornice Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Ornamented Cornice Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary relief

Funerary relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Two Chairs and a Table, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

Two Chairs and a Table

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical figure, by François Girardon

Allegorical figure

François Girardon · 1672–75

Public domainThe Met
Lincrusta-Walton, by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904

Lincrusta-Walton

Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1881–1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Bridget of Sweden Receiving the Rule of Her Order, by Agostino d'Antonio di Duccio

Saint Bridget of Sweden Receiving the Rule of Her Order

Agostino d'Antonio di Duccio · 1459

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th 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. 696 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. 926007 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 11:38 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.