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. 19 shown for “Shield Depicting Saint George Slaying the Dragon” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 13:01 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.
Shield Depicting Saint George Slaying the Dragon

Shield Depicting Saint George Slaying the Dragon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–70

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid-late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint George Slaying the Dragon, by Michael Pacher

Saint George Slaying the Dragon

Michael Pacher · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Knife, by Baiiof

Knife

Baiiof · ca. 1672

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint George Slaying The Dragon

Medallion with Saint George Slaying The Dragon

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Crozier with Saint Michael Slaying the Dragon

Head of a Crozier with Saint Michael Slaying the Dragon

Artist not stated in the record · 1220–30

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Intaglio with Saint Theodore Teron Slaying a Many-Headed Dragon

Intaglio with Saint Theodore Teron Slaying a Many-Headed Dragon

Artist not stated in the record · 1300 or later

Public domainThe Met
Dessein de l’illumination et du feu d’artifice donné à Monseigneur le Dauphin à Meudon le 3e septembre 1735, by Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790

Dessein de l’illumination et du feu d’artifice donné à Monseigneur le Dauphin à Meudon le 3e septembre 1735

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield (Pavise)

Shield (Pavise)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–75

Public domainThe Met
Saint Michael and the Dragon, by Spanish (Valencian) Painter(?)

Saint Michael and the Dragon

Spanish (Valencian) Painter(?) · ca. 1405

Public domainThe Met
Saints Michael and Francis, by Juan de Flandes

Saints Michael and Francis

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1505–9

Public domainThe Met
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
Saint Michael, by Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio

Saint Michael

Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio · mid-1430s

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. 85 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. 1506652 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 13:01 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.