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 with a bird” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 22:51 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 with a bird

Relief with a bird

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tusk, by Kongo artist

Tusk

Kongo artist · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with a Bird

Relief with a Bird

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Brisé fan

Brisé fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird Head

Bird Head

Artist not stated in the record · Date unknown

Public domainThe Met
Ornament, Christmas tree

Ornament, Christmas tree

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird pendant, by Central Region artist(s)

Bird pendant

Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Dish with the Four Continents

Dish with the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Three Pedestals, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Designs for Three Pedestals

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770–80

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
Pair of Plates, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Pair of Plates

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies

Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Knife

Knife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1675–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief

Relief

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

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Fountain Design, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Rocaille Fountain Design

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · after 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with enthroned ruler, by Chakalte'

Relief with enthroned ruler

Chakalte' · 770 CE

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle relief, by Toltec artist(s)

Eagle relief

Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary relief

Funerary relief

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

Public domainThe Met
Byzantine Scroll—Bonn, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Byzantine Scroll—Bonn

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

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

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. 12012 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. 2288798 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 2026-08-30 22:51 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.