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 Illustrating Episodes from the Biblical Story of Joseph” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:21 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 Illustrating Episodes from the Biblical Story of Joseph

Roundel Illustrating Episodes from the Biblical Story of Joseph

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre

Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Friezes, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Friezes

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Story of Joseph, by Biagio d'Antonio

The Story of Joseph

Biagio d'Antonio

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of His Fellow Prisoners, by Master of the Story of Joseph

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of His Fellow Prisoners

Master of the Story of Joseph

Public domainThe Met
Baptism of St. Martin

Baptism of St. Martin

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Public domainThe Met
Knights confessing their Christianity to Emperor Maxentius

Knights confessing their Christianity to Emperor Maxentius

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts, by Biagio d'Antonio

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts

Biagio d'Antonio

Public domainThe Met
St. Catherine confounding scholars before Emperor Maxentius

St. Catherine confounding scholars before Emperor Maxentius

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
St. Catherine brought to Emperor Maxentius by her jailors

St. Catherine brought to Emperor Maxentius by her jailors

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
St. Martin healing the lame and blind beggars against their wishes

St. Martin healing the lame and blind beggars against their wishes

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts, by Jacopo di Arcangelo (called Jacopo del Sellaio)

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts

Jacopo di Arcangelo (called Jacopo del Sellaio) · ca. 1465

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stove, by David II Pfau

Stove

David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Watchcase Lids or Medallions, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for Watchcase Lids or Medallions

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Abraham and Melchizedek, by Hans of Landshut

Dish with Abraham and Melchizedek

Hans of Landshut · 1498

Public domainThe Met
Coverlet

Coverlet

Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 389 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. 3132340 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-03 05:21 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.