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. 15 shown for “Agate barrel” — 44 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:11 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.
Agate barrel

Agate barrel

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Agate, Fortification Agate variety [chalcedony]

Agate, Fortification Agate variety [chalcedony]

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Scottish Type Presented to Jeffrey, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–1797), by John Murdoch

Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Scottish Type Presented to Jeffrey, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–1797)

John Murdoch · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver swivel ring with agate half-barrel

Silver swivel ring with agate half-barrel

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch in the form of a Lesser George, by Nicholas Vallin

Watch in the form of a Lesser George

Nicholas Vallin · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th 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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6607 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 22:11 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.