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. 18 shown for “Votive Tablet with Deity” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 10:29 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.
Votive Tablet with Deity

Votive Tablet with Deity

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church

Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze votive tablet

Bronze votive tablet

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, Roman Votive, Panel with Dionysian Pattern of Grapes and Pinecones, and Eagle atop a Roman Standard., by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

Ornament Design, Roman Votive, Panel with Dionysian Pattern of Grapes and Pinecones, and Eagle atop a Roman Standard.

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned deity

Enthroned deity

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
shrine, votive with figure of four-armed Ganesha

shrine, votive with figure of four-armed Ganesha

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Deity figure, by Maya artist(s)

Deity figure

Maya artist(s) · 200–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
A Votive Image of a Boy Presented by his Parents to St. Nicholas of Bari, by Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786

A Votive Image of a Boy Presented by his Parents to St. Nicholas of Bari

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone votive relief fragment of a seated deity with an inscribed dedication to Apollo

Limestone votive relief fragment of a seated deity with an inscribed dedication to Apollo

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for a tablet, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Sketches for a tablet

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Female Deity

Standing Female Deity

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

Public domainThe Met
Memorial Tablets for Severoli Family, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Memorial Tablets for Severoli Family, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief plaque with the head of a ram deity

Relief plaque with the head of a ram deity

Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lead votive plaque

Lead votive plaque

Artist not stated in the record · probably 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ink Tablet with Thousand-Year Fungus Motif, by Cheng Junfang

Ink Tablet with Thousand-Year Fungus Motif

Cheng Junfang · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Ink Tablet with Black Stag Motif, by Fang Yulu

Ink Tablet with Black Stag Motif

Fang Yulu · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Hilya (Votive Tablet)

Hilya (Votive Tablet)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cow plaque

Cow plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

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. 132 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. 250717 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 10:29 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.