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 showing part of a sun shade and a necklace - see 26.3.353-3” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:39 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 showing part of a sun shade and a necklace - see 26.3.353-3

Relief showing part of a sun shade and a necklace - see 26.3.353-3

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

Public domainThe Met
The Chariot of the Sun Fantasy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

The Chariot of the Sun Fantasy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably 1868–69

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief of part of a female attendant - see 26.3.353-3

Relief of part of a female attendant - see 26.3.353-3

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

Public domainThe Met
Rooftops at Sunset, Rome, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Rooftops at Sunset, Rome

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · November 1868–April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief of a hand with part of necklace - see 26.3.353-3

Relief of a hand with part of necklace - see 26.3.353-3

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

Public domainThe Met
Clouds at Sea, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Clouds at Sea

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1860–1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trotting horse, by Giambologna

Trotting horse

Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief preserving part of a scene with the king and queen - see 26.3.353-4

Relief preserving part of a scene with the king and queen - see 26.3.353-4

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

Public domainThe Met
Mountainous Landscape with a Figure, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mountainous Landscape with a Figure, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 30, 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief preserving part of a scene with the king and queen - see 26.3.353-4

Relief preserving part of a scene with the king and queen - see 26.3.353-4

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

Public domainThe Met
Sunset over the Catskills, Hudson, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sunset over the Catskills, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 9, 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen Neferu

Relief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen Neferu

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

Public domainThe Met
Sunset, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sunset

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1865–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
Icebergs in the Distance, Canada, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Icebergs in the Distance, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June–July 1859

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
Sunset Sketch, Jamaica, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sunset Sketch, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May–September 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Part of an elaborate roof or canopy - see 26.3.354-2

Part of an elaborate roof or canopy - see 26.3.354-2

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Twilight over the Catskills, Hudson, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Twilight over the Catskills, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Sunset at Sea, Ecuador, Part One, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sunset at Sea, Ecuador, Part One

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 1857

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. 302 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 4053398 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 2026-08-28 06:39 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.