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 “Two Medallions” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:51 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.
Two Medallions

Two Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1420

Public domainThe Met
Two Medallion or Frame Designs, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Two Medallion or Frame Designs

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–1050

Public domainThe Met
Two Medallion or Frame Designs, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Two Medallion or Frame Designs

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant Medallion with the Last Judgment

Pendant Medallion with the Last Judgment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1420

Public domainThe Met
Two Medallion or Frame Designs, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Two Medallion or Frame Designs

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prophet Moses, by Valentin Bousch

The Prophet Moses

Valentin Bousch · 1533

Public domainThe Met
Two Medallion or Frame Designs, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Two Medallion or Frame Designs

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prophet Isaiah, by Valentin Bousch

The Prophet Isaiah

Valentin Bousch · 1533

Public domainThe Met
Two Medallion or Frame Designs, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Two Medallion or Frame Designs

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cameo glass medallion of the emperor Augustus

Cameo glass medallion of the emperor Augustus

Artist not stated in the record · early 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for the ceiling of the salon of Palazzo Spinola, Genoa

Design for the ceiling of the salon of Palazzo Spinola, Genoa

Artist not stated in the record · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass medallion of winged Victory

Glass medallion of winged Victory

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Frame, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Frame

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Clement X, by Girolamo Lucenti

Pope Clement X

Girolamo Lucenti · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1757

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with Two Medallions Containing Cupid, by Floris Balthasarsz van Berckenrode

Horizontal Panel with Two Medallions Containing Cupid

Floris Balthasarsz van Berckenrode · after 1596

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flask with Zodiac Medallions

Flask with Zodiac Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century, with additions first half 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling

Project for a Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vignette with Two Portrait Medallions, by Charles Percier

Vignette with Two Portrait Medallions

Charles Percier

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with Three Thimble Designs and Two Medallions, by Johann Theodor de Bry

Horizontal Panel with Three Thimble Designs and Two Medallions

Johann Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

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. 588 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 52660 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-04 01:51 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.