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 fragment of an Asiatic raising his hands in adoration” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 18:12 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 fragment of an Asiatic raising his hands in adoration

Relief fragment of an Asiatic raising his hands in adoration

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
"Full of the D", by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

"Full of the D"

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · copyrighted 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
An Adoring Angel

An Adoring Angel

Artist not stated in the record · 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
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Quinten Massys

The Adoration of the Magi

Quinten Massys · 1526

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–8th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment with Parts of Heads of Prisoners

Relief Fragment with Parts of Heads of Prisoners

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Studies probably for an Adoration of the Shepherds

Studies probably for an Adoration of the Shepherds

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Hieronymus Bosch

The Adoration of the Magi

Hieronymus Bosch · ca. 1475

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Costume Design: Persian Prince, for a Stage Production Designed by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Costume Design: Persian Prince, for a Stage Production Designed by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Artist not stated in the record · 1719

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David and Goliath, by Francesco Fanelli

David and Goliath

Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

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
Relief of an attendant raising a necklace in front of a pole-like image

Relief of an attendant raising a necklace in front of a pole-like image

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Thetis observing Vulcan fabricating the arms of Achilles, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Thetis observing Vulcan fabricating the arms of Achilles

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1800

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. 372 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. 7484735 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-05 18:12 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.