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 of offering bearers carrying boxes” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:21 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 of offering bearers carrying boxes

Relief of offering bearers carrying boxes

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

Public domainThe Met
Triumph of Caesar: The Corselet Bearers

Triumph of Caesar: The Corselet Bearers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief showing procession of offering bearers

Relief showing procession of offering bearers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Stretcher Bearers Carrying a Soldier, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Stretcher Bearers Carrying a Soldier

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · ca. 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Estate Figure

Estate Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Nihon Bridge, Morning View, Nihonbashi, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi), by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Nihon Bridge, Morning View, Nihonbashi, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · ca. 1834

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
Design for a Fountain, by Charles-François Hutin, French, 1715 - 1776

Design for a Fountain

Charles-François Hutin, French, 1715 - 1776 · ca. 1776

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

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: West Wall

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

Public domainThe Met
Insect Daimyo Procession

Insect Daimyo Procession

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment with female offering bearers

Raised relief fragment with female offering bearers

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for a Rotary Perfecting Press, by Tucker, Stephen D.

Patent Model for a Rotary Perfecting Press

Tucker, Stephen D. · ca 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb chapel of Raemkai: west wall, offering bearers

Tomb chapel of Raemkai: west wall, offering bearers

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

Public domainThe Met
Trek up Mt. Fuji, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Trek up Mt. Fuji

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model of a procession of offering bearers

Model of a procession of offering bearers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Relief; Glory of the sacrament; console table, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Relief; Glory of the sacrament; console table

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Offering table from the mortuary temple of Amenemhat I

Offering table from the mortuary temple of Amenemhat I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796

Button

Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

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

Public domainThe Met
Confederate Louisiana Relief Committee cover

Confederate Louisiana Relief Committee cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb chapel of Raemkai: North wall of the entrance corridor

Tomb chapel of Raemkai: North wall of the entrance corridor

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

Public domainThe Met
Asia

Asia

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb chapel of Raemkai: South wall of the entrance corridor

Tomb chapel of Raemkai: South wall of the entrance corridor

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

Public domainThe Met
The Charity of Saint Nicholas, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Charity of Saint Nicholas

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585 - 1588

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. 228 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. 2868080 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-26 20:21 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.