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. 14 shown for “Solidus of Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine” — 55 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:39 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.
Solidus of Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine

Solidus of Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine

Artist not stated in the record · 629–631

Public domainThe Met
1 Solidus, Byzantine Empire, 659 - 668, by Constans II Emperor of Byzantium

1 Solidus, Byzantine Empire, 659 - 668

Constans II Emperor of Byzantium · 659 - 668

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Solidus of Heraclius, Heraclius Constantine, and Heraclonas

Solidus of Heraclius, Heraclius Constantine, and Heraclonas

Artist not stated in the record · 638–641

Public domainThe Met
1 Solidus, Byzantine Empire, 668 - 680, by Constantine IV Emperor of Byzantium

1 Solidus, Byzantine Empire, 668 - 680

Constantine IV Emperor of Byzantium · 668 - 680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Solidus of Heraclius

Solidus of Heraclius

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 610–41 CE

Public domainThe Met
Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath

Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath

Artist not stated in the record · 629–30

Public domainThe Met
Plate with Monogram

Plate with Monogram

Artist not stated in the record · 610–613

Public domainThe Met
Study for Emperor Heraclius Carrying the Cross into Jerusalem, by Gregorio de' Ferrari

Study for Emperor Heraclius Carrying the Cross into Jerusalem

Gregorio de' Ferrari · 1647–1726

Public domainThe Met
Gold solidus of Constantine I

Gold solidus of Constantine I

Artist not stated in the record · 313–315 CE

Public domainThe Met
Gold Solidus of Constantine II

Gold Solidus of Constantine II

Artist not stated in the record · 337–361

Public domainThe Met
Medal Obverse: Equestrian Portrait of Emperor Constantine (r. 307–337) Reverse: Allegory of Salvation

Medal Obverse: Equestrian Portrait of Emperor Constantine (r. 307–337) Reverse: Allegory of Salvation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1402–13 (model); 16th century (cast)

Public domainThe Met
Plate with the Arming of David

Plate with the Arming of David

Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Public domainThe Met
Plate with the Presentation of David to Saul

Plate with the Presentation of David to Saul

Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Public domainThe Met
Plate with David Anointed by Samuel

Plate with David Anointed by Samuel

Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

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. 15 matched · 15 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. 3105758 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 13:39 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.