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. 16 shown for “Bead Plaque” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:18 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.
Bead Plaque

Bead Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design, by Michel, French, active 18th century

Arabesque Design

Michel, French, active 18th century · 1780-1784

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bead Plaque

Bead Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Button

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Voodoo Guitar "Marie" made by Don Moser with debris from Hurricane Katrina, by Don Moser, American

Voodoo Guitar "Marie" made by Don Moser with debris from Hurricane Katrina

Don Moser, American · 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Royal Jewel Cabinet with Sèvres Plaques, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Royal Jewel Cabinet with Sèvres Plaques

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1825–1826

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bead Plaque of Ramesses II

Bead Plaque of Ramesses II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plaque Bead with name of Amenhotep I

Plaque Bead with name of Amenhotep I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plaque Bead with Name of Thutmose IV and a Sphinx on the Reverse

Plaque Bead with Name of Thutmose IV and a Sphinx on the Reverse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plaque Bead with the Name of Amenhotep I, Head of Hathor on the Reverse

Plaque Bead with the Name of Amenhotep I, Head of Hathor on the Reverse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plaque with Saint Peter

Plaque with Saint Peter

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1185–1200

Public domainThe Met
Plaque with Saint Peter in Glory

Plaque with Saint Peter in Glory

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1185–1200

Public domainThe Met
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Amuletic plaque of Paser, the Vizier of Seti I and Ramesses II, by Paser

Amuletic plaque of Paser, the Vizier of Seti I and Ramesses II

Paser · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 121 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 34060 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:18 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.