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 “Broad Collar of Wah” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:32 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.
Broad Collar of Wah

Broad Collar of Wah

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Vestee

Vestee

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature broad collar

Miniature broad collar

Artist not stated in the record · 332–246 BCE

Public domainThe Met
17th Century Gentleman Smoking Pipe, by Reed & Barton, American, 1824–2015

17th Century Gentleman Smoking Pipe

Reed & Barton, American, 1824–2015 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Broad Collar of Hapiankhtifi

Model Broad Collar of Hapiankhtifi

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Hedeoma drummondii Benth.

Hedeoma drummondii Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broad Collar

Broad Collar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Asclepias asperula (Decne.) Woodson subsp. asperula

Asclepias asperula (Decne.) Woodson subsp. asperula

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broad Collar

Broad Collar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Geranium caespitosum E. James

Geranium caespitosum E. James

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broad collar terminal

Broad collar terminal

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

Public domainThe Met
Geranium caespitosum E. James

Geranium caespitosum E. James

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Floral collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stephanomeria tenuifolia (Torr.) H.M. Hall

Stephanomeria tenuifolia (Torr.) H.M. Hall

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broad collar terminal

Broad collar terminal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1775 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Ericameria nauseosa var. hololeuca (A. Gray) G.L. Nesom & G.I. Baird

Ericameria nauseosa var. hololeuca (A. Gray) G.L. Nesom & G.I. Baird

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broad collar terminal

Broad collar terminal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Penstemon confusus M.E. Jones

Penstemon confusus M.E. Jones

Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broad collar terminal

Broad collar terminal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Oenothera lavandulifolia Torr. & A. Gray

Oenothera lavandulifolia Torr. & A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jun 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broad collar amulet

Broad collar amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–380 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Solidago velutina DC.

Solidago velutina DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mummy of Khnumhotep with mask and broad collar

Mummy of Khnumhotep with mask and broad collar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Machaeranthera linearis Greene

Machaeranthera linearis Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1969

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. 266 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. 2860881 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 05:32 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.