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. 22 shown for “Sanctuary lamp (Cesendello)” — 55 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 13:32 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.
Sanctuary lamp (Cesendello)

Sanctuary lamp (Cesendello)

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th or early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sanctuary Lamp, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sanctuary lamp, by Johannes I. Mayr

Sanctuary lamp

Johannes I. Mayr · 1670–73

Public domainThe Met
Sanctuary Lamp, from "Dis

Sanctuary Lamp, from "Dis

Artist not stated in the record · 1714

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lamp (Cesendello)

Lamp (Cesendello)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sanctuary Lamp, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone saucer lamp

Limestone saucer lamp

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE ?

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sanctuary Lamp, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sanctuary lamp, by Gennaro Romanelli

Sanctuary lamp

Gennaro Romanelli · after 1839

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sanctuary Lamp, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sanctuary lamp, by Juan Antonio Dominguez

Sanctuary lamp

Juan Antonio Dominguez · first half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sanctuary Lamp, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone lamp in the shape of a bull’s head

Limestone lamp in the shape of a bull’s head

Artist not stated in the record · 30 BCE–CE 330

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar, plate 2 of "Nuove Inventioni d'Ornament...", by Filippo Passarini, 1636–1698

Design for an Altar, plate 2 of "Nuove Inventioni d'Ornament..."

Filippo Passarini, 1636–1698 · 1698

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze lamp

Bronze lamp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Album of Ecclesiastical Metalwork Designs, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Album of Ecclesiastical Metalwork Designs

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze saucer-shaped lamp

Bronze saucer-shaped lamp

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

Public domainThe Met
Cladium mariscoides (Muhl.) Torr.

Cladium mariscoides (Muhl.) Torr.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 2024

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone lamp in the shape of a bull’s head

Limestone lamp in the shape of a bull’s head

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ficus sp.

Ficus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Apr 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone altar

Limestone altar

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta wall bracket

Terracotta wall bracket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1050–950 BCE

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. 15 matched · 15 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. 6882 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 13:32 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.