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 “Archer's Shield (Pavise)” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:18 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.
Shield (Pavise)

Shield (Pavise)

Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1500

Public domainThe Met
Jatropha curcas L.

Jatropha curcas L.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield (Pavise)

Shield (Pavise)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–75

Public domainThe Met
Jatropha curcas 'Brocade'

Jatropha curcas 'Brocade'

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Infantry Shield (Pavise)

Infantry Shield (Pavise)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Serjania paucidentata DC.

Serjania paucidentata DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Dec 1934 to 17 Dec 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Archer's Shield (Pavise)

Archer's Shield (Pavise)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Passiflora coccinea Aubl.

Passiflora coccinea Aubl.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Archer's Shield (Pavise)

Archer's Shield (Pavise)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Euphorbia heterophylla L.

Euphorbia heterophylla L.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Nov 1934 or 12 Nov 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Archer's Shield (Pavise)

Archer's Shield (Pavise)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Paullinia pinnata L.

Paullinia pinnata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Archer's Shield (Pavise)

Archer's Shield (Pavise)

Artist not stated in the record · 1450–75

Public domainThe Met
Paullinia pinnata L.

Paullinia pinnata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Shield

Standing Shield

Artist not stated in the record · probably early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Phyllanthus caribaeus Urb.

Phyllanthus caribaeus Urb.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1934 to 22 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Shield

Standing Shield

Artist not stated in the record · 1385–87

Public domainThe Met
Paullinia pinnata L.

Paullinia pinnata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Dec 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield (Pavise)

Shield (Pavise)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–1500

Public domainThe Met
Passiflora glandulosa Cav.

Passiflora glandulosa Cav.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta Nolan amphora (jar)

Terracotta Nolan amphora (jar)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 480–470 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Serjania membranacea Splitg.

Serjania membranacea Splitg.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Painter of Vatican G.49

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Painter of Vatican G.49 · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Phyllanthus brasiliensis (Aubl.) Poir.

Phyllanthus brasiliensis (Aubl.) Poir.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1934

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. 37 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. 134541 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-03 05:18 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.