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 “Circular Box” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:58 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.
Circular box

Circular box

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Circular snuff box, by Claude-Pierre Pottier, French, active 1778 - 1806

Circular snuff box

Claude-Pierre Pottier, French, active 1778 - 1806 · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circular Cosmetic Box with a Swivel Lid

Circular Cosmetic Box with a Swivel Lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Box and cover

Box and cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circular Box

Circular Box

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Odessa Food Trust, by Antonina Sofronova, Russian, 1892 - 1966

Odessa Food Trust

Antonina Sofronova, Russian, 1892 - 1966 · ca. 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circular box

Circular box

Artist not stated in the record · 1809–19

Public domainThe Met
Portable Equatorial, by Jacob Emanuel Laminit, German, 1719–1760

Portable Equatorial

Jacob Emanuel Laminit, German, 1719–1760 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circular box

Circular box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circular Box and Cover

Circular Box and Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Patch box and cover

Patch box and cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by François-Nicolas Chevance

Box

François-Nicolas Chevance · 1781–82

Public domainThe Met
Skippet and cover with seal of Leopold II

Skippet and cover with seal of Leopold II

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–92

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Revenge

Revenge

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circular box with hinged cover

Circular box with hinged cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s

Title Page

Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circular Box with Geometric Design

Circular Box with Geometric Design

Artist not stated in the record · 25–200

Public domainThe Met
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone altar or pedestal with coiled snake

Limestone altar or pedestal with coiled snake

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box (part of a set), by Nicolas François Foulon

Box (part of a set)

Nicolas François Foulon · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Covered Box on Stand

Covered Box on Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

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. 171 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. 121241 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 04:58 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.