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 “Banner with Tassel and Shaft” — 60 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:45 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.
Banner with Tassel and Shaft

Banner with Tassel and Shaft

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Banner

Banner

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standard (Alem)

Standard (Alem)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1675–1700

Public domainThe Met
Interior Wall Elevation with a Sofa, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Interior Wall Elevation with a Sofa

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1777-79

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banner with Shaft

Banner with Shaft

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Title Page

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banner with Shaft

Banner with Shaft

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Flag of the 9th Regiment of United States Volunteers, by Unidentified

Flag of the 9th Regiment of United States Volunteers

Unidentified · 1898-1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Signaling Baton (Saihai) and Storage Box

Signaling Baton (Saihai) and Storage Box

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Elevations for a Chandelier

Two Elevations for a Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Halberd of Archduke Ernst of Austria (1553–1605)

Halberd of Archduke Ernst of Austria (1553–1605)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1593

Public domainThe Met
Two Arabesque Panel Designs, by Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s

Two Arabesque Panel Designs

Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glaive of Emperor Rudolf II (reigned 1576–1612), by Hans Stromair

Glaive of Emperor Rudolf II (reigned 1576–1612)

Hans Stromair · dated 1577

Public domainThe Met
Two Arabesque Panel Designs, by Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s

Two Arabesque Panel Designs

Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fauchard of the Bodyguard of Cardinal Scipione Borghese-Caffarelli (1576–1633)

Fauchard of the Bodyguard of Cardinal Scipione Borghese-Caffarelli (1576–1633)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1610

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Ornament Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trumpet banner

Trumpet banner

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
Badminton racket from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Badminton racket from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
War Fan (Gunbai) with Concealed Spear Blade

War Fan (Gunbai) with Concealed Spear Blade

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs, by Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802

Designs for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs

Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Combination Ax-Pistol of Grand Duke Ferdinand I de' Medici (1549–1609)

Combination Ax-Pistol of Grand Duke Ferdinand I de' Medici (1549–1609)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580

Public domainThe Met
Blue Star flag, by Unidentified

Blue Star flag

Unidentified · 1917-1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Burse

Burse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1714–27

Public domainThe Met
Tassel

Tassel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 20 matched · 20 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. 1524883 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 01:45 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.