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. 20 shown for “Clavus band” — 48 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:34 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.
Fragment of a Band with Musicians and Warriors

Fragment of a Band with Musicians and Warriors

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Tunic fragment with clavus bands

Tunic fragment with clavus bands

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of an Ornamented Band

Fragment of an Ornamented Band

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Clavus band

Clavus band

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Band with Scenes from the Vintage

Fragment of a Band with Scenes from the Vintage

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Clavus band

Clavus band

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic Fragment with Lions and Putti

Tunic Fragment with Lions and Putti

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Clavus band

Clavus band

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Band with Figures

Band with Figures

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Clavus band

Clavus band

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Band with Vegetal Motif

Band with Vegetal Motif

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Clavus band

Clavus band

Artist not stated in the record · 600–900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Round Insert from a Coptic Tunic or Shawl

Round Insert from a Coptic Tunic or Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of tunic

Fragment of tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–8th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vertical Band from a Tunic

Vertical Band from a Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Child's tunic

Child's tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clavus bilineatus

Clavus bilineatus

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clavus bilineatus

Clavus bilineatus

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Oct 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthophyllum clavus

Anthophyllum clavus

Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 14551 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-03 15:34 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.