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. 23 shown for “Bronze belt clasp” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:34 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.
Bronze belt clasp

Bronze belt clasp

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Belt

Belt

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clasp

Clasp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200

Public domainThe Met
Belt

Belt

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt clasp

Belt clasp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Police Gazette Championship Belt and presentation case awarded to Ezzard Charles

Police Gazette Championship Belt and presentation case awarded to Ezzard Charles

Artist not stated in the record · 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze belt and clasps

Bronze belt and clasps

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

Public domainThe Met
American Defense Service Medal and ribbon bar awarded to George Francis Bland, by Joseph A. Kiselewski, American, 1901 - 1988

American Defense Service Medal and ribbon bar awarded to George Francis Bland

Joseph A. Kiselewski, American, 1901 - 1988 · ca. 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze belt clasp

Bronze belt clasp

Artist not stated in the record · second half of 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mudcloth ensemble created by Twain's Twines, by Twain's Twines, American, founded 1990

Mudcloth ensemble created by Twain's Twines

Twain's Twines, American, founded 1990 · 1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze belt clasp

Bronze belt clasp

Artist not stated in the record · second half of 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Belt ornament (from a set of eight, F1916.474, 719-724, F1917.558)

Belt ornament (from a set of eight, F1916.474, 719-724, F1917.558)

Artist not stated in the record · 960-1127

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt Clasp

Belt Clasp

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Belt ornament (from a set of eight, F1916.474, 719-724, F1917.558)

Belt ornament (from a set of eight, F1916.474, 719-724, F1917.558)

Artist not stated in the record · 960-1127

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sword and Scabbard

Sword and Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 60 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Belt ornament (part of a group of ten: F1916.428-429, 726-730, 740, 743-744)

Belt ornament (part of a group of ten: F1916.428-429, 726-730, 740, 743-744)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sword and scabbard

Sword and scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Belt ornament (part of a group of ten: F1916.428-429, 726-730, 740, 743-744)

Belt ornament (part of a group of ten: F1916.428-429, 726-730, 740, 743-744)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze hook from a belt

Bronze hook from a belt

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

Public domainThe Met
Belt ornament (from a set of eight, F1916.474, 719-724, F1917.558)

Belt ornament (from a set of eight, F1916.474, 719-724, F1917.558)

Artist not stated in the record · 960-1127

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt Carrier with Powder Flask and Pouch for Chargers

Belt Carrier with Powder Flask and Pouch for Chargers

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Belt ornament (part of a group of ten: F1916.428-429, 726-730, 740, 743-744)

Belt ornament (part of a group of ten: F1916.428-429, 726-730, 740, 743-744)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze belt

Bronze belt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–325 BCE

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. 358 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. 23855 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:34 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.