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 “Amber ring” — 56 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 06:13 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.
Amber ring

Amber ring

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st–mid-2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaded Necklace

Beaded Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 500–600

Public domainThe Met
Turtleback Tile Chandelier

Turtleback Tile Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature amber amphora (jar)

Miniature amber amphora (jar)

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Open-Ring Brooch

Open-Ring Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · early 800s

Public domainThe Met
Birdcage

Birdcage

Artist not stated in the record · 1735–96 and 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass finger ring

Glass finger ring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Amber and Bone Figural Handle

Fork with Amber and Bone Figural Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass ring

Glass ring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Amber Collection

Amber Collection

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant, One of a Pair

Pendant, One of a Pair

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Amber Collection

Amber Collection

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant, One of a Pair

Pendant, One of a Pair

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Amber Collection

Amber Collection

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goa Stone and Gold Case

Goa Stone and Gold Case

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

Public domainThe Met
Amber Collection

Amber Collection

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Amber Collection

Amber Collection

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Bearing the Cross, by North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Christ Bearing the Cross

North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Public domainThe Met
Amber Collection

Amber Collection

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amber Collection

Amber Collection

Artist not stated in the record

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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 9942 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-29 06:13 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.