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 “Bowl with Arabic Inscription” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:25 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Box with Arabic Inscription

Box with Arabic Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Silver Serving Pieces, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Designs for Silver Serving Pieces

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cope hood fragment

Cope hood fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th or early 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiraz

Tiraz

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a garment with embroidered inscription

Fragment of a garment with embroidered inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 908–932 AD

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Narrow band

Narrow band

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lidded bowl

Lidded bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiraz fragment

Tiraz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 934–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nouveaux Desseins pour graver sur l’orfeverie, by Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century

Nouveaux Desseins pour graver sur l’orfeverie

Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Designs for use on Teapots and Bowls, by Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century

Ornament Designs for use on Teapots and Bowls

Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Designs for use on Teapots and Bowls, by Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century

Ornament Designs for use on Teapots and Bowls

Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century · late 17th–early 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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 276206 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 10:25 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.