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 pilos (helmet of conical shape)” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:06 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 pilos (helmet of conical shape)

Bronze pilos (helmet of conical shape)

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass with King David and Jonathan

Wine Glass with King David and Jonathan

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sword and scabbard

Sword and scabbard

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

Public domainThe Met
Inkstand

Inkstand

Artist not stated in the record · 1760s–70s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze helmet of conical shape

Bronze helmet of conical shape

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze shepherd

Bronze shepherd

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Case

Case

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze helmet

Bronze helmet

Artist not stated in the record · early 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Conical shaped straw hat with chin strap, by Unidentified

Conical shaped straw hat with chin strap

Unidentified · early to mid-20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helmet of the Montefortino Type

Helmet of the Montefortino Type

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE; cheekpieces, modern

Public domainThe Met
Horn speaker used as part of a DJ setup

Horn speaker used as part of a DJ setup

Artist not stated in the record · 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Helmet

Helmet

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze helmet of Corinthian type

Bronze helmet of Corinthian type

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze helmet attachment in the shape of a triton

Bronze helmet attachment in the shape of a triton

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Spoon

Spoon

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a hunter

Bronze statuette of a hunter

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

Public domainThe Met
Horn speaker used as part of a DJ setup

Horn speaker used as part of a DJ setup

Artist not stated in the record · 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helmet Bowl (Hoshi-Kabutobachi)

Helmet Bowl (Hoshi-Kabutobachi)

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

Public domainThe Met
Decanter and stopper

Decanter and stopper

Artist not stated in the record · 1801–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure with conical headdress and shield, by Maya artist(s)

Figure with conical headdress and shield

Maya artist(s) · 600–800 CE

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. 79 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2864500 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 2026-09-05 01:06 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.