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. 18 shown for “Relief from Platform of Dais” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:32 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 from Platform of Dais

Relief from Platform of Dais

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

Public domainThe Met
Three Designs for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Three Designs for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from Side of Platform of Dais

Tile from Side of Platform of Dais

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

Public domainThe Met
Monument to Franz I, Empe, by Pompeo Marchesi, 1789 – 1856

Monument to Franz I, Empe

Pompeo Marchesi, 1789 – 1856 · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
See 35.1.12

See 35.1.12

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

Public domainThe Met
Hall Decoration, Hotel des Menus-Plaisirs, for the Assemblee des Notables, by Pierre-Adrien Paris, French, 1741 – 1819

Hall Decoration, Hotel des Menus-Plaisirs, for the Assemblee des Notables

Pierre-Adrien Paris, French, 1741 – 1819 · 1786

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulchral Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Sepulchral Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from Side of Stairway to Dais

Tile from Side of Stairway to Dais

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

Public domainThe Met
Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826), by Camillo Gajani, Italian

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)

Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from Side of Stairway to Dais

Tile from Side of Stairway to Dais

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain with the Labors of Hercules, by Vincenzo di Raffaello de' Rossi, Italian, 1527–1587

Design for a Fountain with the Labors of Hercules

Vincenzo di Raffaello de' Rossi, Italian, 1527–1587 · 1562

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cornice Block with Relief Depicting the Purification of the Pharaoh

Cornice Block with Relief Depicting the Purification of the Pharaoh

Artist not stated in the record · 41–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809

Ornamental Vase Design

Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from Side of Stairway to Dais

Tile from Side of Stairway to Dais

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

Public domainThe Met
Morgan Casket

Morgan Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile with a bound Nubian from the the side of a dais

Tile with a bound Nubian from the the side of a dais

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

Public domainThe Met
Relief with enthroned ruler, by Chakalte'

Relief with enthroned ruler

Chakalte' · 770 CE

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. 80 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 2965431 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:32 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.