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. 12 shown for “Sardonyx cameo with a Bacchic group” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:50 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Sardonyx cameo with a Bacchic group

Sardonyx cameo with a Bacchic group

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bona Sforza (1493–1557), Queen of Poland, by Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

Bona Sforza (1493–1557), Queen of Poland

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio · cameo ca. 1530–40, frame 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pendant Brooch with Cameo of Enthroned Virgin and Child and Christ Pantokrator

Pendant Brooch with Cameo of Enthroned Virgin and Child and Christ Pantokrator

Artist not stated in the record · late 1000s–1100s (cameo); 1100s–1300s (mount)

Public domainThe Met
Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus

Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 41–54 CE

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist in front of a townscape

Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist in front of a townscape

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520–30

Public domainThe Met
Sardonyx cameo of Aurora in a chariot

Sardonyx cameo of Aurora in a chariot

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Cameo with Hercules and the Nemean Lion within a Garland

Cameo with Hercules and the Nemean Lion within a Garland

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–40

Public domainThe Met
Sardonyx cameo of a double capricorn with a portrait of the emperor Augustus

Sardonyx cameo of a double capricorn with a portrait of the emperor Augustus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sardonyx cameo fragment with Hercules tying up Cerberus

Sardonyx cameo fragment with Hercules tying up Cerberus

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Cameo with the Head of a Satyr

Cameo with the Head of a Satyr

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th or early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sardonyx cameo

Sardonyx cameo

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bust of a Roman Emperor / Bust of a man of African descent

Bust of a Roman Emperor / Bust of a man of African descent

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

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. 97 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 05:50 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.