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. 23 shown for “A Hand Bell” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:33 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.
Natural Trumpet, by Johann Wilhelm Haas

Natural Trumpet

Johann Wilhelm Haas · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
A Hand Bell

A Hand Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bell

Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
A Hand Bell

A Hand Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bell

Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Tray with Two Tankards and a Hand Bell, by Vincenzo Belli, Italian, 1710 - 1787

Elevation of a Tray with Two Tankards and a Hand Bell

Vincenzo Belli, Italian, 1710 - 1787 · 1830–1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bell

Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Project: A Hand Bell

Project: A Hand Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bell

Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hand Bell in Neo-Renaissance Style

Design for a Hand Bell in Neo-Renaissance Style

Artist not stated in the record · 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bell

Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 18th entury

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Set of Silver Tableware, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Whole Art of Marbling as Applied to Paper, Book Edges, etc., by Charles W. Woolnough

The Whole Art of Marbling as Applied to Paper, Book Edges, etc.

Charles W. Woolnough · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Sketches, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Sketches

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jo, La Belle Irlandaise, by Gustave Courbet

Jo, La Belle Irlandaise

Gustave Courbet · 1865–66

Public domainThe Met
Left-handed baritone Mirafone

Left-handed baritone Mirafone

Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Natural Trumpet in D, by Andreas Naeplaesnigg

Natural Trumpet in D

Andreas Naeplaesnigg · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hand Fan (Right Plate), by Bellay, French, active from 1734

Design for a Hand Fan (Right Plate)

Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of a Lion, by John Bell

Figure of a Lion

John Bell · 1845–55

Public domainThe Met
Hand bell

Hand bell

Artist not stated in the record · 1572

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and the Erymanthian boar, by Giambologna

Hercules and the Erymanthian boar

Giambologna · Late 17th or 18th century

Public domainThe Met
L'Ouie, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

L'Ouie

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hand, by Auguste Rodin

Hand

Auguste Rodin · modeled possibly ca. 1886–89

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. 20665 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. 1779730 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 05:33 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.