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 “Temple Model” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 15:58 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.
Capital with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (from Saint-Guilhem Cloister)

Capital with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (from Saint-Guilhem Cloister)

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

Public domainThe Met
1838 Angell's Patent Model of a Loom Temple

1838 Angell's Patent Model of a Loom Temple

Artist not stated in the record · 1838-10-19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model of the Mahabodhi Temple

Model of the Mahabodhi Temple

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Diorama with Model of Classical Temple Ruins

Diorama with Model of Classical Temple Ruins

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Temple Model

Temple Model

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
1837 Mason's Patent Model of a Loom Temple

1837 Mason's Patent Model of a Loom Temple

Artist not stated in the record · 1837-07-22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Temple Model

Temple Model

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Model of the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli

Model of the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Temple Model

Temple Model

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–early 16th century

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
Temple Model

Temple Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1521

Public domainThe Met
William T. Hornaday in the Model and Taxidermy Shop, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

William T. Hornaday in the Model and Taxidermy Shop

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Temple Model

Temple Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1521

Public domainThe Met
William T. Hornaday and Andrew Forney in the Model and Taxidermy Shop, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

William T. Hornaday and Andrew Forney in the Model and Taxidermy Shop

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Preaching

Buddha Preaching

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Zeuxis painting Helen, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Zeuxis painting Helen

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Temple Model

Temple Model

Artist not stated in the record · 200 BCE–200 CE

Public domainThe Met
National Zoological Park, Relief Model of Rock Creek Park and Zoo Grounds, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

National Zoological Park, Relief Model of Rock Creek Park and Zoo Grounds

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Pick from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Model Pick from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
National Zoological Park, Relief Model of Rock Creek Park and Zoo Grounds, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

National Zoological Park, Relief Model of Rock Creek Park and Zoo Grounds

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Seive from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Model Seive from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
National Zoological Park, Relief Model of Rock Creek Park and Zoo Grounds, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

National Zoological Park, Relief Model of Rock Creek Park and Zoo Grounds

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Seive from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Model Seive from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
National Zoological Park, Relief Model of Rock Creek Park and Zoo Grounds, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

National Zoological Park, Relief Model of Rock Creek Park and Zoo Grounds

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1888

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. 587 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. 34695 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 15:58 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.