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. 19 shown for “Yamantaka, Destroyer of the God of Death” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:59 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.
Yamantaka, Destroyer of the God of Death

Yamantaka, Destroyer of the God of Death

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Family register sampler

Family register sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil

Chamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Letter from Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack

Letter from Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack

Artist not stated in the record · January 20, 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vajrabhairava mandala

Vajrabhairava mandala

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1330–32

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Bible

The Holy Bible

Artist not stated in the record · after 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Manjushri as a Ferocious Destroyer of Ignorance

The Bodhisattva Manjushri as a Ferocious Destroyer of Ignorance

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stove, by David II Pfau

Stove

David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Public domainThe Met
Mask, by Unidentified

Mask

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Mask, by Unidentified

Mask

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Coffin of Khnumnakht

Coffin of Khnumnakht

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
The Baptism of Christ, by Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte)

The Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

Public domainThe Met
Head of the god Amun

Head of the god Amun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 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. 673 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. 2986343 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 17:59 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.