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 “Terracotta mold for a relief applique” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:13 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 mold for a relief applique

Terracotta mold for a relief applique

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

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by Pipsshank

Jar

Pipsshank · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta mold for a relief

Terracotta mold for a relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
High relief applique of a lion of brownish-red opaque glass with yellowish markings in imitation of marble

High relief applique of a lion of brownish-red opaque glass with yellowish markings in imitation of marble

Artist not stated in the record · 1st-2nd century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Andokides

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Andokides · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company, by Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s

Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company

Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s · ca. 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta appliqué

Terracotta appliqué

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frame or Molding, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Frame or Molding

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta appliqué

Terracotta appliqué

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frame or Molding, by Claude Niquet, French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831

Design for a Frame or Molding

Claude Niquet, French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta appliqué

Terracotta appliqué

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frame or Molding, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Frame or Molding

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta appliqué

Terracotta appliqué

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frame or Molding, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Frame or Molding

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Painter of the Woolly Satyrs

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Doors, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for Doors

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with the Annunciation

Relief with the Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Public domainThe Met
Altered molding plane made by Cesar Chelor, by Cesar Chelor, American, 1720 - 1784

Altered molding plane made by Cesar Chelor

Cesar Chelor, American, 1720 - 1784 · 1753-1784

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a mold for a Megarian bowl

Terracotta fragment of a mold for a Megarian bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 165–100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Designs for Moldings, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Four Designs for Moldings

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta applique fragment of ivy leaves and berries

Terracotta applique fragment of ivy leaves and berries

Artist not stated in the record · 200–100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frame, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Frame

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goddess who bestows riches, probably Sri Lakshmi

Goddess who bestows riches, probably Sri Lakshmi

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for a Hand Stamp, by Elliot, William H.

Patent Model for a Hand Stamp

Elliot, William H. · 1857

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. 681 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. 2076794 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-27 06:13 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.