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 “Reliquary Cross” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:00 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.
Reliquary Cross

Reliquary Cross

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Reliquary Cross, by Unidentified

Reliquary Cross

Unidentified · 1550-1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Cross

Reliquary Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1366–1400

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Reliquary Cross, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Elevation of a Reliquary Cross

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Cross

Reliquary Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary of the Holy Cross, by Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575

Design for a Reliquary of the Holy Cross

Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · ca. 1540

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary cross and chain

Reliquary cross and chain

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Reliquary

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary

Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Reliquary

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Cross with Saint George

Reliquary Cross with Saint George

Artist not stated in the record · 800–1300

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary for a Thorn of the Crown

Design for a Reliquary for a Thorn of the Crown

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Cross with Christ and the Virgin

Reliquary Cross with Christ and the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Reliquary with the Emtombment, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Reliquary with the Emtombment

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Cross with Christ Crucified and the Virgin and Child

Reliquary Cross with Christ Crucified and the Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Reliquary

Project for a Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary cross

Reliquary cross

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary, by Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747

Design for a Reliquary

Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747 · 1675–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Cross

Reliquary Cross

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Reliquaire, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Reliquaire

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary cross

Reliquary cross

Artist not stated in the record · 1586

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary

Design for a Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional cross

Processional cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1460–80

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Altar

Project for an Altar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

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. 75 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. 24751 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 10:00 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.