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. 12 shown for “Bone Stamp Seal” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:40 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.
Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories, by James Purdey the Elder

Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories

James Purdey the Elder · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Bone Stamp Seal

Bone Stamp Seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories, by Durs Egg

Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories

Durs Egg · ca. 1805–10; converted after 1818

Public domainThe Met
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories, by Samuel Colt

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories

Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
Smith and Wesson .44 Double-Action Revolver for George Jay Gould (1864–1923), serial no. 23402, with Case and Cleaning Brush, by Smith & Wesson

Smith and Wesson .44 Double-Action Revolver for George Jay Gould (1864–1923), serial no. 23402, with Case and Cleaning Brush

Smith & Wesson · 1888–89

Public domainThe Met
Stamp

Stamp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stamp

Stamp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stamp

Stamp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stamp

Stamp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stamp

Stamp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Breech-Loading Rimfire Cartridge Pistol with Case and Accessories, by Louis Nicolas Auguste Flobert

Breech-Loading Rimfire Cartridge Pistol with Case and Accessories

Louis Nicolas Auguste Flobert · ca. 1855

Public domainThe Met
Cased Pair of Percussion Target Pistols with Loading and Cleaning Accessories, Made for Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d'Artois, Duke of Bordeaux, Count of Chambord (1820–1883), by Jean André Prosper Henri Le Page

Cased Pair of Percussion Target Pistols with Loading and Cleaning Accessories, Made for Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d'Artois, Duke of Bordeaux, Count of Chambord (1820–1883)

Jean André Prosper Henri Le Page · dated 1829

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. 2289 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 54454 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:40 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.