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 the tip of a sunshade - see 26.3.353-3” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:28 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 the tip of a sunshade - see 26.3.353-3

Relief showing the tip of a sunshade - see 26.3.353-3

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

Public domainThe Met
Sheath for a Cutlery Set

Sheath for a Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · 1555

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu: part of a sunshade (see 26.3.353-1)

Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu: part of a sunshade (see 26.3.353-1)

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

Public domainThe Met
Gold wireless microphone and black case used on The Oprah Winfrey Show

Gold wireless microphone and black case used on The Oprah Winfrey Show

Artist not stated in the record · 2009

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
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
Relief of female attendant with sunshade - see 26.3.353-3

Relief of female attendant with sunshade - see 26.3.353-3

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

Public domainThe Met
Model for Descriptive Geometry by A. Jullien - Representation of a Line (Special Cases), by Jullien, A.

Model for Descriptive Geometry by A. Jullien - Representation of a Line (Special Cases)

Jullien, A. · ca 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief showing the handle of a mirror - see 26.3.353-3

Relief showing the handle of a mirror - see 26.3.353-3

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

Public domainThe Met
Copy of the Portland Vase, by Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, British

Copy of the Portland Vase

Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, British · 1850–1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Tsuba, by Iwamoto Konkwan, Japanese, 1755 – 1801

Tsuba

Iwamoto Konkwan, Japanese, 1755 – 1801 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief fragments from the tomb of Neferu showing richly adorned attendants moving right to left

Relief fragments from the tomb of Neferu showing richly adorned attendants moving right to left

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bedroom, Hotel de Mailly-Nesle, Paris, by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Design for a Bedroom, Hotel de Mailly-Nesle, Paris

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1770–80

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
Design for an Ewer

Design for an Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Head of a Man, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Head of a Man, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1883–1884

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

Relief of part of a richly adorned female figure - see 26.3.353-3

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

Public domainThe Met
Botanical Sketches, Bloxburgh, Jamaica, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Botanical Sketches, Bloxburgh, Jamaica

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

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
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
Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu: part of a sunshade (see 26.3.353-1)

Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu: part of a sunshade (see 26.3.353-1)

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for the North Wall of the Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for the North Wall of the Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1818–19

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. 200 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. 3946367 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-02 13:28 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.