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. 15 shown for “Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 10:40 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.
Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters

Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE–4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Monument, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for Monument

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters

Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE–4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Saint Basil and Saint Gregory

Saint Basil and Saint Gregory

Artist not stated in the record · 1665-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters

Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE–4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement for the "National Union of the United Brewery Workmen", by Whitehead & Hoag Company

Advertisement for the "National Union of the United Brewery Workmen"

Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Faience polyhedron inscribed with letters of the Greek alphabet

Faience polyhedron inscribed with letters of the Greek alphabet

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

Public domainThe Met
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Bronze hydria (water jar)

Bronze hydria (water jar)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486), by Rogier van der Weyden

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
Display dish with Charles II (1630–1685) in a tree, by Thomas Toft

Display dish with Charles II (1630–1685) in a tree

Thomas Toft · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Adoration of the Shepherds

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1605–10

Public domainThe Met
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

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. 226 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. 360168 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 10:40 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.