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. 23 shown for “Shepherd's crook or staff” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:25 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.
Shepherd's crook or staff

Shepherd's crook or staff

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
La Pastorale, by Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794

La Pastorale

Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Knob from a Crozier with the Entry into Jerusalem

Knob from a Crozier with the Entry into Jerusalem

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200

Public domainThe Met
Shepherdess Piping to a Shepherd

Shepherdess Piping to a Shepherd

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze shepherd's crook

Bronze shepherd's crook

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
ATTRIBUTS PASTORALS, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

ATTRIBUTS PASTORALS

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten), by Ferdinand Hodler

The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)

Ferdinand Hodler · 1896

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche with Pastoral Motifs, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for a Cartouche with Pastoral Motifs

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Public domainThe Met
Trophy Design, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Trophy Design

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1772

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crozier with Lamb of God

Crozier with Lamb of God

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1360–1400

Public domainThe Met
Bed hanging

Bed hanging

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Joseph, by Salvatore di Franco

St. Joseph

Salvatore di Franco · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Arabesque Panel Designs, by Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s

Two Arabesque Panel Designs

Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stucco relief panel

Stucco relief panel

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
A Couple Embracing in a Landscape, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

A Couple Embracing in a Landscape

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Academic Male Nude with Staff, by Eugène Delacroix

Academic Male Nude with Staff

Eugène Delacroix · 1816–20

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a cup

Fragment of a cup

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King's attendant, by Giuseppe Gori

King's attendant

Giuseppe Gori · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1517

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crozier Head with Crucifixion, Virgin and Child, and Saint Denis

Crozier Head with Crucifixion, Virgin and Child, and Saint Denis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boy With a Staff, by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Boy With a Staff

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta · 1682–1754

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. 31 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. 250833 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 05:25 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.