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. 11 shown for “Wall painting: Polyphemus and Galatea in a landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:09 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Wall painting: Polyphemus and Galatea in a landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Wall painting: Polyphemus and Galatea in a landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall painting: Perseus and Andromeda in landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Wall painting: Perseus and Andromeda in landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall painting on black ground: landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Wall painting on black ground: landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall painting on black ground: Aedicula with small landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Wall painting on black ground: Aedicula with small landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall painting on black ground: supports with entrablature, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Wall painting on black ground: supports with entrablature, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall painting on red ground: candelabrum with frieze, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Wall painting on red ground: candelabrum with frieze, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall painting on black ground: Egyptianizing scene and pair of swans, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Wall painting on black ground: Egyptianizing scene and pair of swans, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall painting: frieze supporting trellis, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Wall painting: frieze supporting trellis, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall paintings on black ground: from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Wall paintings on black ground: from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century 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. 84 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 16:09 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.