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. 22 shown for “Terracotta architectural plaque with lotus and palmette designs” — 51 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:35 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 architectural plaque with lotus and palmette designs

Terracotta architectural plaque with lotus and palmette designs

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

Public domainThe Met
Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Icon with the Crucifixion

Icon with the Crucifixion

Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century

Public domainThe Met
"Orchstres places aux Champs elysees, dans le gran carres", by Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870

"Orchstres places aux Champs elysees, dans le gran carres"

Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Frame

Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

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

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coin cabinet, by Charles Percier

Coin cabinet

Charles Percier · ca. 1809–19

Public domainThe Met
Knob with Escutcheon and Lock Mechanism

Knob with Escutcheon and Lock Mechanism

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass mosaic inlay

Glass mosaic inlay

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Molding and Ornamentation

Molding and Ornamentation

Artist not stated in the record · 1625–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass mosaic inlay fragments

Glass mosaic inlay fragments

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
"Palmettes de Couronnement des orchestres", by Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870

"Palmettes de Couronnement des orchestres"

Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
Architectural panels from the Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry B. Wheelock, architect), by Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA

Architectural panels from the Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry B. Wheelock, architect)

Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA · ca. 1899

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
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Carpet with Quatrefoil Design

Fragment of a Carpet with Quatrefoil Design

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry Bergen Wheelock, architect), by Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA

Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry Bergen Wheelock, architect)

Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA · ca. 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Classical and Pseudo-Classical Architectural Details, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Classical and Pseudo-Classical Architectural Details

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1529216 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-28 19:35 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.