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. 19 shown for “Bronze phallic ornament” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:17 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.
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Ornament: butterfly

Ornament: butterfly

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rolltop desk, by David Roentgen

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Public domainThe Met
Ornament

Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze phallic ornament

Bronze phallic ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament: dragonfly (in fragments)

Ornament: dragonfly (in fragments)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze phallic ornament

Bronze phallic ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

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
Bronze phallic ornament

Bronze phallic ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

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
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Ornament: lotus leaf

Ornament: lotus leaf

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

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
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Wall clock (pendule en cartel), by Jean Godde l'aîné

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)

Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Over-and-Under Flintlock Pocket Pistol of the Hughes of Gwerclas Family with Case and Accessories, by Joseph Egg

Over-and-Under Flintlock Pocket Pistol of the Hughes of Gwerclas Family with Case and Accessories

Joseph Egg · ca. 1815–20

Public domainThe Met
Commode, by André Charles Boulle

Commode

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
Longcase astronomical regulator, by Ferdinand Berthoud

Longcase astronomical regulator

Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

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. 1566 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. 42835 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 20:17 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.