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. 23 shown for “Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:42 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 Statuette of Saint Christopher

Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1375–1425

Public domainThe Met
Reliquary, by Unidentified

Reliquary

Unidentified · 1500-1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th 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
Chasse with Saints and Angels

Chasse with Saints and Angels

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint James the Greater, by Gil de Siloe

Saint James the Greater

Gil de Siloe · 1489–93

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Altar

Project for an Altar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Saint Christopher

Saint Christopher

Artist not stated in the record · 1511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Christopher, Eustace, and Erasmus (Three Helper Saints), by Tilman Riemenschneider

Saints Christopher, Eustace, and Erasmus (Three Helper Saints)

Tilman Riemenschneider · ca. 1500–1505

Public domainThe Met
Saint Christopher, by Unidentified

Saint Christopher

Unidentified · 1600-1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Achelous, by Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Hercules and Achelous

Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Saint Christopher

Saint Christopher

Artist not stated in the record · 1503–1504

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Female Saint, by Hans von Reutlingen

Standing Female Saint

Hans von Reutlingen · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Christopher Grant Champlin, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Christopher Grant Champlin

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Arm of St. Valentine

Reliquary Arm of St. Valentine

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Trichomanes elegans Rich.

Trichomanes elegans Rich.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shrine of the Virgin

Shrine of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300

Public domainThe Met
Project for a reliquary, intended to be executed in wood

Project for a reliquary, intended to be executed in wood

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Silver Statuette of St. Christopher, from the Wittenberg Reliquaries, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

A Silver Statuette of St. Christopher, from the Wittenberg Reliquaries

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for an Altar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
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. 47 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. 2885807 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:42 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.