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 “Circular Trumpet” — 60 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 16:01 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 Trumpet

Circular Trumpet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Bugle, by Unidentified

Bugle

Unidentified · 1916-1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Soprano Helicon in B-flat

Soprano Helicon in B-flat

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Presentation Trumpet, "Avoca Hose Co.", by unknown

Presentation Trumpet, "Avoca Hose Co."

unknown · ca 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tenor Cornetto in D

Tenor Cornetto in D

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Speaking Trumpet, by unknown

Speaking Trumpet

unknown · unknown

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tenor Slide Trombone in B-flat, by Jeremias Franciscus Verhoeven

Tenor Slide Trombone in B-flat

Jeremias Franciscus Verhoeven · 1827–49

Public domainThe Met
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–4th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Narsĩngā

Narsĩngā

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Lily Vase, by New England Glass Company, American, East Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1818 – 1888

Lily Vase

New England Glass Company, American, East Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1818 – 1888 · 1883–88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Public domainThe Met
Pipe bowl

Pipe bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Pomander

Pomander

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated youth with a lamp in the form of a snail shell, by Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Seated youth with a lamp in the form of a snail shell

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · possibly late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon, by Clodion (Claude Michel)

Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon

Clodion (Claude Michel) · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Whistle, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Whistle

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Whistle, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Whistle

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Whistle, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Whistle

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 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. 20 matched · 20 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. 8500 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 2026-09-06 16:01 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.