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. 13 shown for “Terminal chock from a chariot” — 41 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:49 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.
Snaffle Bit

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Artist not stated in the record · 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terminal chock from a chariot

Terminal chock from a chariot

Artist not stated in the record · 5th-4th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terminal chock from a chariot

Terminal chock from a chariot

Artist not stated in the record · 5th-4th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Ornamental Arabesque Motifs, by Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802

Two Ornamental Arabesque Motifs

Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gunmakers Workshop Surrounded by Ornament and Names of Parisian Gunmakers, by C. Jacquinet, French, active 1650 – 1660

Gunmakers Workshop Surrounded by Ornament and Names of Parisian Gunmakers

C. Jacquinet, French, active 1650 – 1660 · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gunmakers Workshop with Names of Parisian Gunmakers, by Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690

Gunmakers Workshop with Names of Parisian Gunmakers

Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690 · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffre à Bijoux, by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

Coffre à Bijoux

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1774–88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet from a Sketchbook: Triumph of Silenus and Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheet from a Sketchbook: Triumph of Silenus and Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Design: Apollo in his Chariot Led by Aurora, by Fedele Fischetti, Italian, 1734 - 1789

Tapestry Design: Apollo in his Chariot Led by Aurora

Fedele Fischetti, Italian, 1734 - 1789 · 1760–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Char de la Ville, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Char de la Ville

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peace in a chariot, Sala di Recezione, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Peace in a chariot, Sala di Recezione, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rendering of the Grand Gallery of Honor, Palazzo Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Unknown

Rendering of the Grand Gallery of Honor, Palazzo Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Unknown · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1949403 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-01 17:49 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.