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 “Unidentified (Roman)” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:29 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.
Glass cameo plaque fragment

Glass cameo plaque fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Flask, by Unidentified (Roman)

Flask

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hexagonal bottle

Glass hexagonal bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Unidentified (Roman)

Vase

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass plaque fragment

Glass plaque fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher, by Unidentified (Roman)

Pitcher

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass cage cup fragment

Glass cage cup fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 3rd–4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher, by Unidentified (Roman)

Pitcher

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Books and Scholars' Possessions, by Unidentified artist

Books and Scholars' Possessions

Unidentified artist · early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Amphora, by Unidentified (Roman)

Amphora

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sacred animal mummy in the form of a falcon

Sacred animal mummy in the form of a falcon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Unidentified (Roman)

Vase

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crucifix on a Golgotha base, by Giuseppe de' Levi

Crucifix on a Golgotha base

Giuseppe de' Levi · ca. 1590–1600 (base), later 17th century (corpus), 19th century (cross)

Public domainThe Met
Bottle, by Unidentified (Roman)

Bottle

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragments of unidentified shapes

Terracotta fragments of unidentified shapes

Artist not stated in the record · 6th/5th centuries BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher, by Unidentified (Roman)

Pitcher

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragments of unidentified shapes

Terracotta fragments of unidentified shapes

Artist not stated in the record · 6th/5th centuries BCE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace, by Unidentified (Roman)

Necklace

Unidentified (Roman) · 200-300

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragments of unidentified shapes

Terracotta fragments of unidentified shapes

Artist not stated in the record · 6th/5th centuries BCE

Public domainThe Met
Columnia Balsam Flask, by Unidentified (Roman)

Columnia Balsam Flask

Unidentified (Roman) · 1400-1100 B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of an unidentified shape

Terracotta fragment of an unidentified shape

Artist not stated in the record · 6th/5th centuries BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher, by Unidentified (Roman)

Pitcher

Unidentified (Roman) · 100-200

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of an unidentified shape

Terracotta fragment of an unidentified shape

Artist not stated in the record · 6th/5th centuries BCE

Public domainThe Met
Amphorisk, by Unidentified (Roman)

Amphorisk

Unidentified (Roman) · 800-700 B.C.

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. 1479 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. 30127 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-28 16:29 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.