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. 20 shown for “Vulture Killing a Hare” — 57 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 23:24 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.
Vulture vessel, by Itzocan artist(s)

Vulture vessel

Itzocan artist(s) · 1200–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Vulture Killing a Hare

Vulture Killing a Hare

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mister Vulture, by J. J. Grandville

Mister Vulture

J. J. Grandville · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Dog Beside Killed Game, by Henry Bernard Chalon, English, 1770 - 1849

Study of a Dog Beside Killed Game

Henry Bernard Chalon, English, 1770 - 1849 · 1825–1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a kneeling boy holding a hare

Bronze statuette of a kneeling boy holding a hare

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

Public domainThe Met
Sylvilagus brasiliensis gabbi

Sylvilagus brasiliensis gabbi

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare with Condor

Earflare with Condor

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Vultur gryphus

Vultur gryphus

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare with condor

Earflare with condor

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Vultur gryphus

Vultur gryphus

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Sep 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral depicting Isis nursing infant Horus in the marsh surrounded by protective genii

Pectoral depicting Isis nursing infant Horus in the marsh surrounded by protective genii

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Adonis, by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

Venus and Adonis

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · 1550s

Public domainThe Met
Vultur gryphus

Vultur gryphus

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Nov 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Hunters' tales, from 'Hunting sketches,' published in Le Charivari, October 29, 1864, by Honoré Daumier

Hunters' tales, from 'Hunting sketches,' published in Le Charivari, October 29, 1864

Honoré Daumier · October 29, 1864

Public domainThe Met
Exhibition Vase with Scenes from the Ramayana

Exhibition Vase with Scenes from the Ramayana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880s

Public domainThe Met
Turkey Vulture

Turkey Vulture

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of earflares with condors

Pair of earflares with condors

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Maharana Sangram Singh II Hunts Hares at Naramangra, by Unidentified artist

Maharana Sangram Singh II Hunts Hares at Naramangra

Unidentified artist · ca. 1720–30

Public domainThe Met
Vultur gryphus

Vultur gryphus

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Feb 1946

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. 17 matched · 17 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. 1774186 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-08 23:24 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.