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 “The Banquet of Belshazzar” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 11:46 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.
Sideboard, also known as the Pericles Dressoir, by Bruce J. Talbert

Sideboard, also known as the Pericles Dressoir

Bruce J. Talbert · 1866

Public domainThe Met
The Banquet of Belshazzar

The Banquet of Belshazzar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590–1620

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary relief

Funerary relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Women at a Banquet, by Nina de Garis Davies

Women at a Banquet

Nina de Garis Davies · 1925; original ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Les plaisirs de l'Isle enchantée

Les plaisirs de l'Isle enchantée

Artist not stated in the record · 1664

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta Banquet Group

Terracotta Banquet Group

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta dinos (deep round-bottomed bowl), by Group of Vienna 4013

Terracotta dinos (deep round-bottomed bowl)

Group of Vienna 4013 · ca. 375–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: A Banquet Hall, by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1696–1756

Stage Design: A Banquet Hall

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1696–1756 · 1740–44

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guests at a Banquet, by Nina de Garis Davies

Guests at a Banquet

Nina de Garis Davies · 1920–1921; original ca. 1386–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Banquet of the Gods, variant for the Sala di Pranza, Palazzo Guarini, Forli, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Banquet of the Gods, variant for the Sala di Pranza, Palazzo Guarini, Forli

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Feast of Belshazzar, by Antonio Gionima

The Feast of Belshazzar

Antonio Gionima · 1697–1732

Public domainThe Met
Salome given the Head of John the Baptist [left]; Salome offers the Head of John the Baptist to her Parents [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Salome given the Head of John the Baptist [left]; Salome offers the Head of John the Baptist to her Parents [right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banquet of the Gods, by Guglielmo della Porta

Banquet of the Gods

Guglielmo della Porta · after 1585

Public domainThe Met
The Banqueting Hall, Whitehall, London, by Ernest Clifford Peixotto, American, 1869–1940

The Banqueting Hall, Whitehall, London

Ernest Clifford Peixotto, American, 1869–1940 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Women at a Banquet, by Nina de Garis Davies

Women at a Banquet

Nina de Garis Davies · 1922; original ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Banquet of the Gods, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Banquet of the Gods

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1810

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 Curtains, for the Music Room or the Banqueting Room, Brighton, Royal Pavilion, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for Curtains, for the Music Room or the Banqueting Room, Brighton, Royal Pavilion

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1818–19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of a young man

Terracotta head of a young man

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall Elevation, probably for the Banqueting Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Wall Elevation, probably for the Banqueting Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banquet Scene with Musicians, Tomb of Nakht, by Norman de Garis Davies

Banquet Scene with Musicians, Tomb of Nakht

Norman de Garis Davies · 1908–1914; original ca. 1410–1370 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Banqueting Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for the Banqueting Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

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. 385 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. 2983543 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-05 11:46 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.