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 with Christ and the Virgin” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:27 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 with Christ and the Virgin

Reliquary Cross with Christ and the Virgin

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

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 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
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
Virgin

Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
Christ on the Cross with Mary and John, by Martin Schongauer, German, 1450–1491

Christ on the Cross with Mary and John

Martin Schongauer, German, 1450–1491 · ca. 1485

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary

Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
A Saint's Vision of the Cross, by Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786

A Saint's Vision of the Cross

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · ca. 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary

Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1220

Public domainThe Met
Veronica

Veronica

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cross

Cross

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Descent from the Cross

Descent from the Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600-1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Fresco in the Dome of the Cathedral in Citta di Castello, by Tommaso Maria Conca, Italian, 1734 – 1822

Project for a Fresco in the Dome of the Cathedral in Citta di Castello

Tommaso Maria Conca, Italian, 1734 – 1822 · 1789–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Descent from the Cross

Plaque with the Descent from the Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Public domainThe Met
Christ Falls Under the Cross

Christ Falls Under the Cross

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque from a Reliquary, by Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket

Plaque from a Reliquary

Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Reliquary, by Unidentified

Reliquary

Unidentified · 1700-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enamel from a Reliquary, by Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket

Enamel from a Reliquary

Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Glory with Trinity and Saints (recto), architectural plan for the church of Santa Maria d'Itria in Rome, by Francesco Manno, Italian, 1754 - 1831

Glory with Trinity and Saints (recto), architectural plan for the church of Santa Maria d'Itria in Rome

Francesco Manno, Italian, 1754 - 1831 · ca. 1814–1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Shrine, by Jean de Touyl

Reliquary Shrine

Jean de Touyl · ca. 1325–50

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
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. 1558 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. 1972093 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 13:27 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.