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 “Roundel” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:11 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.
Roundel, by Louis C. Tiffany

Roundel

Louis C. Tiffany · 1893–96

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 1390

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Playing at Quintain

Roundel with Playing at Quintain

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Panel with a Central Roundel, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Ornamental Panel with a Central Roundel

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1657–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century (roundels) and 17th century (panels)

Public domainThe Met
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 868–904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry fragment

Tapestry fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of roundel

Fragment of roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Study for Roundel with Putto, by Pierre-Victor Galland, Swiss, active France, 1822 - 1892

Study for Roundel with Putto

Pierre-Victor Galland, Swiss, active France, 1822 - 1892 · late 19th century

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. 985 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. 506 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 06:11 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.