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. 19 shown for “Avian Bell” — 47 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 02:24 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.
Avian Bell

Avian Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1520 CE

Public domainThe Met
Andreaea depressinervis Cardot

Andreaea depressinervis Cardot

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jan 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle pendant, by Veraguas artist

Eagle pendant

Veraguas artist · 700–1550 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jan 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle pendant, by Veraguas artist

Eagle pendant

Veraguas artist · 700–1550 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jan 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle pendant, by Chiriquí artist(s)

Eagle pendant

Chiriquí artist(s) · 800–1519 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ceratodon grossiretis Cardot

Ceratodon grossiretis Cardot

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jan 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary) prayer book, by Baselyos, also known as "The Ground Hornbill Master"

Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary) prayer book

Baselyos, also known as "The Ground Hornbill Master" · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jan 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Deity figure, by Maya artist(s)

Deity figure

Maya artist(s) · 200–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jan 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle Pendant

Eagle Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jan 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jan 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jan 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jan 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andreaea crassinervia F. Weber & D. Mohr

Andreaea crassinervia F. Weber & D. Mohr

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jan 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andreaea crassinervia F. Weber & D. Mohr

Andreaea crassinervia F. Weber & D. Mohr

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jan 1969

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 13560 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-02 02:24 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.