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. 22 shown for “Bone Trumpet” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 14:13 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.
Bone Trumpet

Bone Trumpet

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Presentation Trumpet, by unknown

Presentation Trumpet

unknown · unknown

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trumpet

Trumpet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–700

Public domainThe Met
Presentation Trumpet

Presentation Trumpet

Artist not stated in the record · unknown

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side-blown Trumpet

Side-blown Trumpet

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Work Trumpet, by unknown

Work Trumpet

unknown · unknown

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trumpet

Trumpet

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Work Trumpet, by unknown

Work Trumpet

unknown · unknown

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rkangling

Rkangling

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Work Trumpet, by unknown

Work Trumpet

unknown · unknown

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oko

Oko

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Work Trumpet, by unknown

Work Trumpet

unknown · unknown

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Work Trumpet, by unknown

Work Trumpet

unknown · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Public domainThe Met
Work Trumpet, by unknown

Work Trumpet

unknown · unknown

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side-blown Trumpet, by Yoruba artist

Side-blown Trumpet

Yoruba artist · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Speaking Trumpet, by unknown

Speaking Trumpet

unknown · unknown

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cornetto in A

Cornetto in A

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

Public domainThe Met
Work Trumpet, by unknown

Work Trumpet

unknown · unknown

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pipe Organ, by Thomas Appleton

Pipe Organ

Thomas Appleton · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Work Trumpet, by unknown

Work Trumpet

unknown · 1848-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment

Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1260–70

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. 47 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 29475 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 14:13 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.