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 from couch” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:58 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.
Couch, by Duncan Phyfe

Couch

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Public domainThe Met
Hanging

Hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from couch

Relief from couch

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Panel for a cabinet door

Panel for a cabinet door

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays

Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis

Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Frontal from the base of a funerary couch with Sogdian musicians and dancers and Buddhist divinities

Frontal from the base of a funerary couch with Sogdian musicians and dancers and Buddhist divinities

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Couch

Couch

Artist not stated in the record · 1851–56

Public domainThe Met
Day Couch for Mrs. Allen's Boudoir, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas, by Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959

Day Couch for Mrs. Allen's Boudoir, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas

Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959 · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall pocket

Wall pocket

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty

Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty

Artist not stated in the record · 656–650 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1769

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
Stomacher

Stomacher

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th or early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief

Relief

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Couch from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Harpo Studios, by Dakota Jackson, American, born 1949

Couch from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Harpo Studios

Dakota Jackson, American, born 1949 · 2002; reupholstered 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief

Relief

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sharecropping contract between Amos G. Robinson and Berry Couch, by Amos G. Robinson, American, born 1831

Sharecropping contract between Amos G. Robinson and Berry Couch

Amos G. Robinson, American, born 1831 · February 1, 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary relief

Funerary relief

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

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1795-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat front

Waistcoat front

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725–35

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. 9943 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 416289 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 21:58 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.