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. 14 shown for “Terracotta disk with Aphrodite riding on a swan” — 43 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 05:26 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 disk with Aphrodite riding on a swan

Terracotta disk with Aphrodite riding on a swan

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Putti in a Chariot with Dolphins and Swans, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Putti in a Chariot with Dolphins and Swans

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta disk with Aphrodite riding on a goose

Terracotta disk with Aphrodite riding on a goose

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Button, Geraldine Ferraro, Sally Ride, by N. G. Slater Corp

Button, Geraldine Ferraro, Sally Ride

N. G. Slater Corp

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Button, ERA is for Everyone, Sally Ride

Button, ERA is for Everyone, Sally Ride

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Antique Goddesses, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Four Antique Goddesses

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · after 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footed Beaker

Footed Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Toile de Jouy: La Marchande d'Amours (The Cupid Seller), by Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867

Design for Toile de Jouy: La Marchande d'Amours (The Cupid Seller)

Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867 · 1817–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charger, from the Swan Service (Schwanenservice), by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Charger, from the Swan Service (Schwanenservice)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Girl with Swan, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Girl with Swan

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · 1875–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Nine Circular Paintings in the Bathroom of the Aldini Villa, Montmorency, France, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for Nine Circular Paintings in the Bathroom of the Aldini Villa, Montmorency, France

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2513978 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 2026-08-31 05:26 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.