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. 12 shown for “War Chariot” — 40 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:54 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Char de Mars, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Char de Mars

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terminal chock from a chariot

Terminal chock from a chariot

Artist not stated in the record · 5th-4th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terminal chock from a chariot

Terminal chock from a chariot

Artist not stated in the record · 5th-4th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling Cabinet Dedicated to War, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceiling Cabinet Dedicated to War, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chariot shaft fitting in the form of a dragon head

Chariot shaft fitting in the form of a dragon head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of model of chariot umbrella

Fragment of model of chariot umbrella

Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
VUE PERSPECTIVE DE LA PLACE DE LOUIS LE GRAND, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

VUE PERSPECTIVE DE LA PLACE DE LOUIS LE GRAND

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Char de l'Hymen., by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Char de l'Hymen.

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Chariot Procession

A Chariot Procession

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Chariot of the Sun Fantasy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

The Chariot of the Sun Fantasy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably 1868–69

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Roundels with Victories in Chariots; River Victory, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Two Roundels with Victories in Chariots; River Victory

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1798–1800

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 29285 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-01 15:54 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.