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 two heads and a stick” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:04 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 two heads and a stick

Relief with two heads and a stick

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fireplace, Antinous Room, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for a Fireplace, Antinous Room, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1755–57

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
Button, by Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796

Button

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma, by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1749

Public domainThe Met
Ewer with a Bas-Relief

Ewer with a Bas-Relief

Artist not stated in the record · 1543

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Plate from 12 Stick Zum Verzaighnen Stechen Ver Fertigt (Set of Twelve Designs for Engraved Vessels)

Plate from 12 Stick Zum Verzaighnen Stechen Ver Fertigt (Set of Twelve Designs for Engraved Vessels)

Artist not stated in the record · 1580

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Public domainThe Met
Knife

Knife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–80

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

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque for an Oblong Panel, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Grotesque for an Oblong Panel

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1730–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One of Two Doors with Ironwork

One of Two Doors with Ironwork

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

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 Fragment with Parts of Heads of Prisoners

Relief Fragment with Parts of Heads of Prisoners

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Teapot, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Teapot

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Gnarled Dead Tree, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Gnarled Dead Tree

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1851–52

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Panel with Two Griffins Drinking from a Cup

Relief Panel with Two Griffins Drinking from a Cup

Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736

Ornamental Vase Design

L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736 · 1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with the Head of Amenhotep I

Relief with the Head of Amenhotep I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan, by Charles Bour, French, 1814–1881

Pleated fan

Charles Bour, French, 1814–1881 · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Horse Heads

Panel with Horse Heads

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Panels of Ornament Design, by Charles Errard, French, c. 1601 - 1689

Two Panels of Ornament Design

Charles Errard, French, c. 1601 - 1689 · 1664-1689

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. 8283 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2855859 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-06 13:04 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.