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 “Stone-paste disk fragment of a rider” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 09:32 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.
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup), by Rider Painter

Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Rider Painter · mid-6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stone-paste disk fragment of a rider

Stone-paste disk fragment of a rider

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Bowl with a Horse and Rider

Fragment of a Bowl with a Horse and Rider

Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1268

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a queen's crown (?) with modius of uraeus, disk, horns and double uraeus

Fragment of a queen's crown (?) with modius of uraeus, disk, horns and double uraeus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Stone-paste fragment of moulded head

Stone-paste fragment of moulded head

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup), by Rider Painter

Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Rider Painter · first half of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a bowl

Fragment of a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette fragment of a male votary holding a kid

Terracotta statuette fragment of a male votary holding a kid

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment with a design of a torso

Fragment with a design of a torso

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of the foot of a bowl

Fragment of the foot of a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette fragment of a male votary

Terracotta statuette fragment of a male votary

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a bowl

Fragment of a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette fragment of a male votary

Terracotta statuette fragment of a male votary

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a vessel with floral design

Fragment of a vessel with floral design

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment from a Frieze with Meander Pattern and Diamond-Shaped Rosettes

Fragment from a Frieze with Meander Pattern and Diamond-Shaped Rosettes

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a small glazed animal

Fragment of a small glazed animal

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of an open shape (deep drinking cup)

Terracotta fragment of an open shape (deep drinking cup)

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th/early 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of a sphinx (fragment)

Head of a sphinx (fragment)

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a bowl

Fragment of a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

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. 378 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. 55 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-07 09:32 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.