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. 12 shown for “Terracotta head of a young satyr” — 40 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:08 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Design for Majolica Pitcher

Design for Majolica Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sea Centaur Battles Sea Monster, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sea Centaur Battles Sea Monster

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Youth and Seated Magus with Monkey on Leash, plate 18 from the Scherzi di Fantasia, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770

Standing Youth and Seated Magus with Monkey on Leash, plate 18 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · 1750-60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'ESCARPOLETE, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

L'ESCARPOLETE

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

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

Sheet from a Sketchbook: The Triumph of Silenus; Sacrifice to Bacchus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grotesque for an Oblong Panel, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Grotesque for an Oblong Panel

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1730–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battle of the Sea Gods, right half

Battle of the Sea Gods, right half

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fantasy Composed of Heads and a Sculpted Urn, by Donato Creti, Italian, 1671–1749

Fantasy Composed of Heads and a Sculpted Urn

Donato Creti, Italian, 1671–1749 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design of a Cabinet in the Louis XVI Style

Design of a Cabinet in the Louis XVI Style

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Handle

Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Engraved Tazza with the Head of a Jester and a Satyr, representing Pride and Folly

Design for an Engraved Tazza with the Head of a Jester and a Satyr, representing Pride and Folly

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3876489 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 06:08 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.