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 “Tomb model of a watch dog” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:35 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 Rape of Europa and Mercury and the Three Graces, by Lambertus Vrythoff

The Rape of Europa and Mercury and the Three Graces

Lambertus Vrythoff · case ca. 1645, movement ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Tomb model of a watch dog

Tomb model of a watch dog

Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model of a Granary with Scribes

Model of a Granary with Scribes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Head of a tomb model of a dog

Head of a tomb model of a dog

Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by F. L. Meybom

Watch

F. L. Meybom · ca. 1670–75

Public domainThe Met
Tomb model of a watch tower

Tomb model of a watch tower

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model of a Porch and Garden

Model of a Porch and Garden

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Proof for textile: The tomb of J.J.Rousseau, by Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815

Proof for textile: The tomb of J.J.Rousseau

Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815 · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Sporting Boat

Model Sporting Boat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Tomb figure of a barking dog

Tomb figure of a barking dog

Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baptism of Christ, by Alessandro Algardi

Baptism of Christ

Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Tomb, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Elevation of a Tomb

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dog kennel, by Claude I Sené

Dog kennel

Claude I Sené · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
Dog Watching a Sleeping Child

Dog Watching a Sleeping Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nécessaire with watch

Nécessaire with watch

Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Upper grindstone from a tomb model of a mill

Upper grindstone from a tomb model of a mill

Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Dog-Powered Treadmill, Patent Office

Dog-Powered Treadmill, Patent Office

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David and Goliath, by Francesco Fanelli

David and Goliath

Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

Public domainThe Met
Alexander the Great watching a Fight between his Dog, an Elephant, and a Lion, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Alexander the Great watching a Fight between his Dog, an Elephant, and a Lion

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty

Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty

Artist not stated in the record · 656–650 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Le Guet du Chien

Le Guet du Chien

Artist not stated in the record · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winter (one of a set of four), by Edme Bouchardon

Winter (one of a set of four)

Edme Bouchardon · probably mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1831

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. 948 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. 3854572 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 21:35 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.