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 “Water lily attachment, probably for a processional barque” — 52 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 04:58 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.
Water lily attachment, probably for a processional barque

Water lily attachment, probably for a processional barque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Processional Staff

Design for a Processional Staff

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–1050

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration with Oriental Landscape, probably for Conservatory/Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Wall Decoration with Oriental Landscape, probably for Conservatory/Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a goddess, probably Mut, for attachment to a processional barque

Head of a goddess, probably Mut, for attachment to a processional barque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall Fountain, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Wall Fountain

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Model, Mars Science Laboratory, Mars Rover Curiosity

Model, Mars Science Laboratory, Mars Rover Curiosity

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain

Design for a Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
La Barque, by Jan van Almeloveen, Dutch, born Mijdrecht, Netherlands ca. 1652-died Utrecht, Netherlands after 1683

La Barque

Jan van Almeloveen, Dutch, born Mijdrecht, Netherlands ca. 1652-died Utrecht, Netherlands after 1683

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heroic Landscape with Rainbow, by Joseph Anton Koch

Heroic Landscape with Rainbow

Joseph Anton Koch · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Trophy with Ecclesiastical Objects, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Trophy with Ecclesiastical Objects

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1830–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hot Water Spout

Design for a Hot Water Spout

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, by Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche

Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) · ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hot Water Spout

Design for a Hot Water Spout

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse blinker carved in relief with a seated sphinx

Horse blinker carved in relief with a seated sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hot Water Spout

Design for a Hot Water Spout

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumn Trees and Grasses by a Stream

Autumn Trees and Grasses by a Stream

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hot Water Spout

Design for a Hot Water Spout

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White Poppies on Gold Ground, by Ogata Kōrin

White Poppies on Gold Ground

Ogata Kōrin

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hot Water Spout

Design for a Hot Water Spout

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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. 12 matched · 12 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. 2105569 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-02 04:58 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.