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. 15 shown for “Shoe Reliquary” — 43 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:45 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.
Shoe Reliquary

Shoe Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–1400

Public domainThe Met
Project for a reliquary, intended to be executed in wood

Project for a reliquary, intended to be executed in wood

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Pendant with Queen Margaret of Sicily Blessed by Bishop Reginald of Bath

Reliquary Pendant with Queen Margaret of Sicily Blessed by Bishop Reginald of Bath

Artist not stated in the record · 1174–77

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Reliquaries

Designs for Reliquaries

Artist not stated in the record · 1698

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug with Horseshoes

Jug with Horseshoes

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketched for a Reliquary, by Filippo Passarini, 1636–1698

Sketched for a Reliquary

Filippo Passarini, 1636–1698 · 1698

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Reliquary

Design for a Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Reliquary for a Thorn of the Crown

Design for a Reliquary for a Thorn of the Crown

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Reliquary, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Reliquary

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Reliquary, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Reliquary

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Reliquary, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for a Reliquary

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Reliquary, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Reliquary

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation of a Reliquary Cross, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Elevation of a Reliquary Cross

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Reliquary, by Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650

Design for Reliquary

Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · 1620–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Elevation of a Reliquary of a Skull

The Elevation of a Reliquary of a Skull

Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1810

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4198 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-28 10:45 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.