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. 18 shown for “Standard Head” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:37 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.
Standard Head

Standard Head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1511

Public domainThe Met
Tool, Wire Cutter, by A.B.Chance Company

Tool, Wire Cutter

A.B.Chance Company

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Top for standard

Top for standard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, Altar Dedicated to Mars between Roman Standards, by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

Ornament Design, Altar Dedicated to Mars between Roman Standards

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standard (Alem)

Standard (Alem)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1675–1700

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, Roman Altar Dedicated to Mars and Roman Standards, by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

Ornament Design, Roman Altar Dedicated to Mars and Roman Standards

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standard bearer, by Mexica or Veracruz artist(s)

Standard bearer

Mexica or Veracruz artist(s) · 1200–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, Altar Dedicated to Mars between Roman Standards, by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

Ornament Design, Altar Dedicated to Mars between Roman Standards

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of Kary carrying a standard of Horus

Statuette of Kary carrying a standard of Horus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary statue of Ramesses II as a standard bearer

Fragmentary statue of Ramesses II as a standard bearer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two ornamental panels, by Agostino Mitelli, 1609 - 1660

Two ornamental panels

Agostino Mitelli, 1609 - 1660 · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Face from a Composite Statue, probably Queen Tiye

Face from a Composite Statue, probably Queen Tiye

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a Statue of Haremhab bearing a standard

Fragment of a Statue of Haremhab bearing a standard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1314–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child, by Filippino Lippi

Madonna and Child

Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

Public domainThe Met
Head of Christ, by Emmanuel Tzanès

Head of Christ

Emmanuel Tzanès

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. 505 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. 69322 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 02:37 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.