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 with Christ as Savior of the World” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 04:24 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 with Christ as Savior of the World

Roundel with Christ as Savior of the World

Artist not stated in the record · 1520–30

Public domainThe Met
The Savior, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937

The Savior

Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · ca. 1900-1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 1390

Public domainThe Met
Saint Joseph and the Infant Savior

Saint Joseph and the Infant Savior

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–1785

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 · ca. 1246

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

Stove

David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)

Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)

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

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret, by Andrea da Giona

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret

Andrea da Giona · 1434

Public domainThe Met
Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC, by Hawker Aircraft Ltd.

Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC

Hawker Aircraft Ltd. · 1944

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
Letter from Jack Fogarty to Mary MacDonald

Letter from Jack Fogarty to Mary MacDonald

Artist not stated in the record · April 5, 1945

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
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

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

Public domainThe Met
Family register sampler

Family register sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I

Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 962–968

Public domainThe Met
Westland Lysander IIIa, by Westland Aircraft Limited

Westland Lysander IIIa

Westland Aircraft Limited · 1942

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
Casilda Luna’s Crucifix

Casilda Luna’s Crucifix

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with the Temptation of Saint Anthony

Roundel with the Temptation of Saint Anthony

Artist not stated in the record · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Double Escape, by Townsend, Harry

Double Escape

Townsend, Harry · 1918

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. 478 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. 3026387 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-01 04:24 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.