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. 16 shown for “Broad collar amulet” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:30 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 amulet

Broad collar amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–380 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vestee

Vestee

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

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
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
Miniature broad collar

Miniature broad collar

Artist not stated in the record · 332–246 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Figure, by Kissi artist

Figure

Kissi artist · 15th-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broad collar of Nefer Amulets

Broad collar of Nefer Amulets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Wendell Phillips

Carte-de-visite portrait of Wendell Phillips

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broad Collar

Broad Collar

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

Public domainThe Met
Broad Collar

Broad Collar

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

Public domainThe Met
Broad Collar spacer

Broad Collar spacer

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Broad collar spacer

Broad collar spacer

Artist not stated in the record · 305–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Broad Collar spacer

Broad Collar spacer

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Broad Collar spacer

Broad Collar spacer

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Broad collar terminal

Broad collar terminal

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

Public domainThe Met
Broad collar terminal

Broad collar terminal

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

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. 306 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. 14008 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 06:30 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.