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 “Yoke ornament in the shape of a deer” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 03:14 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.
Yoke ornament in the shape of a deer

Yoke ornament in the shape of a deer

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

Public domainThe Met
Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Daniel Mignot, active 1593 - d. 1616

Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Daniel Mignot, active 1593 - d. 1616 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yoke ornament in the shape of a deer

Yoke ornament in the shape of a deer

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

Public domainThe Met
Deer-shaped ornament

Deer-shaped ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament, by Maya artist(s)

Ornament

Maya artist(s) · 3rd–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Deer-shaped ornament (fragment)

Deer-shaped ornament (fragment)

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament, by Maya artist(s)

Ornament

Maya artist(s) · 400–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs, by Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs

Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 15-17, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Mixed Studies near Mt. Hor, Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mixed Studies near Mt. Hor, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yoke

Yoke

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Earring

Design for an Earring

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt plaque in the shape of a kneeling horse

Belt plaque in the shape of a kneeling horse

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chest protector

Chest protector

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frog yoke, by Classic Veracruz artist(s)

Frog yoke

Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 600-900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch or Hair Ornament in Shape of Feather

Design for Brooch or Hair Ornament in Shape of Feather

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Closed yoke, by Classic Veracruz artist(s)

Closed yoke

Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bandbox lid fragment

Bandbox lid fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Safety Valve, Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, R.H. Goddard, by Dr. Robert H. Goddard

Safety Valve, Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, R.H. Goddard

Dr. Robert H. Goddard · 1930s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner in the shape of a goose

Incense burner in the shape of a goose

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Red floral sleeveless qipao, by Dynasty, Chinese, founded 1953

Red floral sleeveless qipao

Dynasty, Chinese, founded 1953 · ca. 1960

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. 2608 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 7484582 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 2026-09-05 03:14 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.