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 “Steatite miniature offering table” — 62 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:50 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.
Steatite miniature offering table

Steatite miniature offering table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1700 BCE

Public domainThe Met
table

table

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature offering table

Miniature offering table

Artist not stated in the record · 664–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature offering table

Miniature offering table

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature Stela of Ahmose

Miniature Stela of Ahmose

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
table

table

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Sewing machine

Sewing machine

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

The Last Supper

Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Surtout de Table (Centerpiece) with the Temple of Isis in Pompeii

Surtout de Table (Centerpiece) with the Temple of Isis in Pompeii

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Table Design with Vases, by Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716

Table Design with Vases

Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of an Official Who is a Dwarf

Statuette of an Official Who is a Dwarf

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 BC

Public domainThe Met
A genre scene, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

A genre scene

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1725–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Princess Elizabeth (1596–1662), Later Queen of Bohemia, by Robert Peake the Elder

Princess Elizabeth (1596–1662), Later Queen of Bohemia

Robert Peake the Elder · ca. 1606

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall and border

Sidewall and border

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of carved ornaments with the Maize God, by Maya artist(s)

Pair of carved ornaments with the Maize God

Maya artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials J. B., by Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843

Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials J. B.

Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · ca. 1795

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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 1 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. 19443 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-03 06:50 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.