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. 24 shown for “Bone hairpin with bust of a woman” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:51 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 hairpin with bust of a woman

Bone hairpin with bust of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johann Valentin Gevers

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Black hairpin used as a self-defense weapon during protest marches, by Unidentified

Black hairpin used as a self-defense weapon during protest marches

Unidentified · ca. 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià, by Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists

Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià

Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Blue hairpin used as a self-defense weapon during protest marches, by Unidentified

Blue hairpin used as a self-defense weapon during protest marches

Unidentified · ca. 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Dress designed by Ann Lowe, by Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981

Dress designed by Ann Lowe

Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · ca. 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bone hairpin

Bone hairpin

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

Public domainThe Met
Bust Portrait of a Classical Woman, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Bust Portrait of a Classical Woman

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Grasshopper on Stalk of Flowering Lily, by Nomura Chōkei (dates unknown)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Grasshopper on Stalk of Flowering Lily

Nomura Chōkei (dates unknown) · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pink pleated bustier with ruffled hem, by Jay Smith, American, 1942 - 1986

Pink pleated bustier with ruffled hem

Jay Smith, American, 1942 - 1986 · 1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by Melchior Baumgartner

Cabinet

Melchior Baumgartner · ca. 1655–59, engraved decorations ca. 1825–50

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Bust of a Woman, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of Bust of a Woman

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Profile of a Woman with a Braided Knot, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Profile of a Woman with a Braided Knot

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust, by C. Lacroix, Franco-Flemish

Bust

C. Lacroix, Franco-Flemish · ca. 1695–1700

Public domainThe Met
Standing Woman, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Standing Woman

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaques with Scenes from the Story of Joshua

Plaques with Scenes from the Story of Joshua

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1000

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Console and Escutcheon, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Design for a Console and Escutcheon

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with portrait of a woman, by Joseph Etienne Blerzy

Snuffbox with portrait of a woman

Joseph Etienne Blerzy · 1773–74, miniature ca. 1778–80

Public domainThe Met
Bust of a Woman, Possibly Study for Portrait of Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Bust of a Woman, Possibly Study for Portrait of Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll

Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimney Piece and Adjoining Bays with Alternative Suggestions

Design for a Chimney Piece and Adjoining Bays with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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. 503 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. 3890155 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-28 23:51 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.