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 “Bar for cutting slices for inlay” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:34 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.
Guitar

Guitar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Bar for cutting slices for inlay

Bar for cutting slices for inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze furniture attachments with silver inlay

Bronze furniture attachments with silver inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bar for cutting slices for inlay

Bar for cutting slices for inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat, by Richard Holden

Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat

Richard Holden · ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bar for slicing inlays

Bar for slicing inlays

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE - 19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, rosette

Inlay fragment, rosette

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

Public domainThe Met
Bar for slicing inlays

Bar for slicing inlays

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE - 19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, rekhyt birds

Inlay fragment, rekhyt birds

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bar for slicing inlays

Bar for slicing inlays

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay with a sema tawy design

Inlay with a sema tawy design

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bar for slicing inlays

Bar for slicing inlays

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bar for slicing inlays

Bar for slicing inlays

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a bar for slicing inlays

Fragment of a bar for slicing inlays

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a bar for slicing inlays

Fragment of a bar for slicing inlays

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Bar fragment for slicing inlays

Bar fragment for slicing inlays

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crossbow Brooch

Crossbow Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · early 400s

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a bar for slicing inlays

Fragment of a bar for slicing inlays

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of bar for slicing inlay

Fragment of bar for slicing inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

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. 325 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 457905 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-04 05:34 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.