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 Killing of the Ox (December)” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:22 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 Killing of the Ox (December)

Roundel with Killing of the Ox (December)

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel fragment

Panel fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Remus Drives Away and Kills the Robbers of the Herds; Santuary for the Fugitives on the Campidoglio, Two Studies after Carracci, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Remus Drives Away and Kills the Robbers of the Herds; Santuary for the Fugitives on the Campidoglio, Two Studies after Carracci

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 1390

Public domainThe Met
Convention Badge

Convention Badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

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
Two Boats, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Two Boats

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with the Nativity

Roundel with the Nativity

Artist not stated in the record · 1510–20

Public domainThe Met
The Lion Strangler

The Lion Strangler

Artist not stated in the record · early–mid-12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box decorated with auspicious symbols

Box decorated with auspicious symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
The Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

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

Study for Roundel with Putto Holding Attributes of Music

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Ox of Saint Luke (one of two appliqués from a book cover)

The Ox of Saint Luke (one of two appliqués from a book cover)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1225

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry fragment

Tapestry fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lion of Saint Mark (one of two appliqués from a book cover)

The Lion of Saint Mark (one of two appliqués from a book cover)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1225

Public domainThe Met
Tenjin (Sugawara no Michizane) with an ox

Tenjin (Sugawara no Michizane) with an ox

Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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. 346 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3011993 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 2026-08-29 02:22 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.