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 royal male figures” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 14:04 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 royal male figures

Relief with two royal male figures

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

Public domainThe Met
Dessein des grandes Grilles posées sur la Place Royale de Nancy en 1755 par ordre de S.M. le Roy de Pologne, by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

Dessein des grandes Grilles posées sur la Place Royale de Nancy en 1755 par ordre de S.M. le Roy de Pologne

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

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
Jewish Woman of Algiers, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Jewish Woman of Algiers

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Préliminaire Apologétique Sur La Forge., by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

Préliminaire Apologétique Sur La Forge.

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smiling figure (Sonriente), by South central Veracruz artist(s)

Smiling figure (Sonriente)

South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Grand Trumeau de la Galerie d’Apollon, by Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726

Grand Trumeau de la Galerie d’Apollon

Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court official from a commemorative altar, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Court official from a commemorative altar

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Cartouche Designs, by Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692

Four Cartouche Designs

Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror-bearer, by Maya artist(s)

Mirror-bearer

Maya artist(s) · 410–650 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher, by Mintons

Pitcher

Mintons · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

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
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
relief

relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729), by Unknown

Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729)

Unknown · probably shortly before 1704

Public domainThe Met
Le Chateau des Tuileries du còté du Pont Royal a Paris (Tuileries Palace next to the Pont Royal in Paris), by Chez Daumont, active 18th century

Le Chateau des Tuileries du còté du Pont Royal a Paris (Tuileries Palace next to the Pont Royal in Paris)

Chez Daumont, active 18th century

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
Titlepage and Cartouche Designs, by Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692

Titlepage and Cartouche Designs

Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · ca.1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman from the French Colonies, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Woman from the French Colonies

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1861

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
Roller (one of a pair), by Meissen Manufactory

Roller (one of a pair)

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Design for Footed Vase, in Vasses de la Maison Royalle de Loo Nouvellement (New Vases for the Royal House of Loo), by Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752

Design for Footed Vase, in Vasses de la Maison Royalle de Loo Nouvellement (New Vases for the Royal House of Loo)

Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700

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. 3361 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. 957959 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 2026-08-31 14:04 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.