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 “Box-form ornament with granulation” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 06:58 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.
Box-form ornament with granulation

Box-form ornament with granulation

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Caduceus-form, by Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815

Caduceus-form

Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box-form ornament with granulation and filagree

Box-form ornament with granulation and filagree

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head

Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring with granulation

Earring with granulation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Designs for Case Covers, Roundels, and Bands, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Ornament Designs for Case Covers, Roundels, and Bands

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)

One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)

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

Public domainThe Met
Earrings

Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold serpentine fibula (safety pin) with animals in granulation

Gold serpentine fibula (safety pin) with animals in granulation

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornaments

Ornaments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wedjat eye with granulation and decorative wire ornament

Wedjat eye with granulation and decorative wire ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Engraved Ornament

Project for an Engraved Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1675

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold earring with clustered spheres and pyramidal granulation

Gold earring with clustered spheres and pyramidal granulation

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

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold earring with clustered spheres and pyramidal granulation

Gold earring with clustered spheres and pyramidal granulation

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

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Ewer-shaped Ornaments, Album of Ornament, by Franz Xaver Habermann, German, 1721 – 1796

Two Designs for Ewer-shaped Ornaments, Album of Ornament

Franz Xaver Habermann, German, 1721 – 1796 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cap ornament

Cap ornament

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold pendant with granulated ornament

Gold pendant with granulated ornament

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cap ornament

Cap ornament

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring, One of a Pair

Earring, One of a Pair

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornament and Roundels, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament and Roundels

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

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. 295 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2066 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 2026-09-07 06:58 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.