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 “Armet with Mask Visor in the Form of a Rooster” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 13:51 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.
Armet with Mask Visor in the Form of a Rooster

Armet with Mask Visor in the Form of a Rooster

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armet, by LIONARDO

Armet

LIONARDO · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armet, by Missaglia workshop

Armet

Missaglia workshop · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
Flight helmet used by Colonel James E. Randall

Flight helmet used by Colonel James E. Randall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armet, by Missaglia workshop

Armet

Missaglia workshop · ca. 1475

Public domainThe Met
Flight helmet worn by Thunderbird pilot Gen. Lloyd W. Newton

Flight helmet worn by Thunderbird pilot Gen. Lloyd W. Newton

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armet

Armet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Rooster's Head

Rooster's Head

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary mask, by Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

Funerary mask

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Wall Clock (Cartel) Design (Title Page Before Lettering), by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

Wall Clock (Cartel) Design (Title Page Before Lettering)

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1775–94

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Krar (mask), by Mabuiag Island artist

Krar (mask)

Mabuiag Island artist · mid to late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jarro de Pico, by Hernando Solis

Jarro de Pico

Hernando Solis · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
L'Escarpolette, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

L'Escarpolette

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask Visor in Form of a Human Face, by Kolman Helmschmid

Mask Visor in Form of a Human Face

Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Sifting Spoon

Sifting Spoon

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armet

Armet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Cornice (Ceiling) Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Cornice (Ceiling) Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armet with Mask Visor

Armet with Mask Visor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520–25

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tureen, by Johann Nepomuk

Design for a Tureen

Johann Nepomuk · 1825-1835

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. 664 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 7483694 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-31 13:51 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.