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 “Silver denarius of M. Junius Brutus” — 57 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:43 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.
Silver denarius of M. Junius Brutus

Silver denarius of M. Junius Brutus

Artist not stated in the record · 43–42 BCE

Public domainThe Met
John, Edwin & Junius Booth, by Jeremiah Gurney, 12 Oct 1812 - 21 Apr 1895

John, Edwin & Junius Booth

Jeremiah Gurney, 12 Oct 1812 - 21 Apr 1895 · November 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver denarius of Brutus

Silver denarius of Brutus

Artist not stated in the record · 54 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Junius Brutus Booth as Sir Edward Mortimer

Junius Brutus Booth as Sir Edward Mortimer

Artist not stated in the record · 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver denarius serratus of Mamilius Limetanus

Silver denarius serratus of Mamilius Limetanus

Artist not stated in the record · 82 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Edwin Booth As Brutus, by Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912

Edwin Booth As Brutus

Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912 · modeled 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver denarius of Aemilius Scaurus

Silver denarius of Aemilius Scaurus

Artist not stated in the record · 58 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Anax junius

Anax junius

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sard ring stone

Sard ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · 50–25 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Anax junius

Anax junius

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1173–80

Public domainThe Met
Anax junius

Anax junius

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair, by Sir Joshua Reynolds

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Public domainThe Met
Anax junius

Anax junius

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Marius, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Triumph of Marius

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

Public domainThe Met
Anax junius

Anax junius

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mount for Spear-Shaft

Mount for Spear-Shaft

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400

Public domainThe Met
Anax junius

Anax junius

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Mar 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver denarius of Marcus Aurelius

Silver denarius of Marcus Aurelius

Artist not stated in the record · 176–177 CE

Public domainThe Met
Anax junius

Anax junius

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mount for Spear Shaft

Mount for Spear Shaft

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400

Public domainThe Met
Anax junius

Anax junius

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt Buckle

Belt Buckle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400

Public domainThe Met
Tornos brutus

Tornos brutus

Artist not stated in the record

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. 17 matched · 17 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. 3602123 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-02 13:43 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.