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. 21 shown for “Belt Plaque with Confronted Rams” — 51 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:33 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.
Belt Plaque with Confronted Rams

Belt Plaque with Confronted Rams

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Plaque, by Herman Mueller, German, 1854–1941

Plaque

Herman Mueller, German, 1854–1941 · 1887–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Fountains, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Fountains

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt Plaque with Confronted Bovines

Belt Plaque with Confronted Bovines

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Lion Strangler

The Lion Strangler

Artist not stated in the record · early–mid-12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt Plaque with Feline and Ram

Belt Plaque with Feline and Ram

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plaque for Vietnam War service presented to Major Colin L. Powell, by 1st Infantry Regiment

Plaque for Vietnam War service presented to Major Colin L. Powell

1st Infantry Regiment · September 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Flintlock Pistols, by Alexander Campbell

Pair of Flintlock Pistols

Alexander Campbell · ca. 1750–70

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Three Pedestals, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Designs for Three Pedestals

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt buckle with paired felines attacking ibexes

Belt buckle with paired felines attacking ibexes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
A pair of belt plaques

A pair of belt plaques

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Furniture plaque carved in relief with winged figures, locust, and monkey

Furniture plaque carved in relief with winged figures, locust, and monkey

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament

Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Furniture plaque carved in high relief with two Egyptianizing figures flanking a volute tree

Furniture plaque carved in high relief with two Egyptianizing figures flanking a volute tree

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Towel fragment

Towel fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Scottish Type Presented to Jeffrey, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–1797), by John Murdoch

Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Scottish Type Presented to Jeffrey, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–1797)

John Murdoch · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Belt plaque

Belt plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt plaque

Belt plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Twelve Earrings, by Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century

Designs for Twelve Earrings

Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century · 1865–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Knights in Armor Confronting a Crocodile and a Boar, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Two Knights in Armor Confronting a Crocodile and a Boar

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 260558 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-27 08:33 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.