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. 20 shown for “Terracotta revetment with a griffin” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 00:40 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 revetment with a griffin

Terracotta revetment with a griffin

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agate Lentoid

Agate Lentoid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque with griffins, by Arthur & Robert

Arabesque with griffins

Arthur & Robert · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold rosette with the head of a griffin

Gold rosette with the head of a griffin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 630–620 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Andiron with Griffins and, by G. Prati

Andiron with Griffins and

G. Prati · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta vase fragment with griffin

Terracotta vase fragment with griffin

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–6th 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
Terracotta head of a griffin

Terracotta head of a griffin

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Glazed pottery tile revetment

Glazed pottery tile revetment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze griffin attachment

Bronze griffin attachment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600–575 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Elevation of a Console Table

The Elevation of a Console Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta appliqué

Terracotta appliqué

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

Public domainThe Met
Ohio State Buckeyes football helmet worn by Archie Griffin

Ohio State Buckeyes football helmet worn by Archie Griffin

Artist not stated in the record · 1972-1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta appliqué

Terracotta appliqué

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Ornament Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 1716-19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Terracotta plaque

Terracotta plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta mold for a relief

Terracotta mold for a relief

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

Public domainThe Met
Bronze lid and upper part of an oil flask

Bronze lid and upper part of an oil flask

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 32 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. 1865085 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 00:40 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.