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 “Sarcophagus” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:12 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.
Sarcophagus

Sarcophagus

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Roman Sarcophagus, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Roman Sarcophagus

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1868 - April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone sarcophagus: the Amathus sarcophagus

Limestone sarcophagus: the Amathus sarcophagus

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument, by Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766

Sepulchral Monument

Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766 · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Artist not stated in the record · 595–526 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Roman sarcophagus in the Vatican Museum, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

A Roman sarcophagus in the Vatican Museum

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcophagus of Djedhor

Sarcophagus of Djedhor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200–150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Crypt with Sarcophagus

Stage Design, Crypt with Sarcophagus

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone sarcophagus

Limestone sarcophagus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 475–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bishop’s Sarcophagus

Design for a Bishop’s Sarcophagus

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcophagus, by Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Sarcophagus

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sarcophagus and allegorical figures, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sarcophagus and allegorical figures

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcophagus, by Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Sarcophagus

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sarcophagus and allegorical figures, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sarcophagus and allegorical figures

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcophagus, by Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Sarcophagus

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sarcophagus and allegorical figures, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sarcophagus and allegorical figures

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble sarcophagus with garlands

Marble sarcophagus with garlands

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200–225 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sarcophagus, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sarcophagus

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcophagus of the Hathor Priestess Henhenet

Sarcophagus of the Hathor Priestess Henhenet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Sarcophagus and allegorical figures, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sarcophagus and allegorical figures

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Entombment of Christ

Entombment of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble sarcophagus lid with reclining couple

Marble sarcophagus lid with reclining couple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 220 CE

Public domainThe Met
The Sarcophagus, by Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808

The Sarcophagus

Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

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. 237 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. 174 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 05:12 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.