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. 17 shown for “Cluster Brooch with Letters Spelling "Amor"” — 48 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:36 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.
Cluster Brooch with Letters Spelling "Amor"

Cluster Brooch with Letters Spelling "Amor"

Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Brooch owned by the Elliott family, by Unidentified

Brooch owned by the Elliott family

Unidentified · 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch, by Ball, Black & Co.

Brooch

Ball, Black & Co. · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for brooch with insized letters

Design for brooch with insized letters

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Brooch and box

Brooch and box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Massacre of the Innocents, by François Joseph Navez

The Massacre of the Innocents

François Joseph Navez · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Bracelet (the Latin words NONRELINQUES on one side, NONRELINQUAM on the other), by Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815

Bracelet (the Latin words NONRELINQUES on one side, NONRELINQUAM on the other)

Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815 · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene from A Long Tale for an Autumn Night (Aki no yo no nagamonogatari)

Scene from A Long Tale for an Autumn Night (Aki no yo no nagamonogatari)

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
“55 M.V.I. A Volunteer for Freedom" medal owned by Marquis Peterson

“55 M.V.I. A Volunteer for Freedom" medal owned by Marquis Peterson

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cupid and Psyche: Four Octagons and Eight Drawings of Cupid, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Cupid and Psyche: Four Octagons and Eight Drawings of Cupid

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eight Sacrificial Scenes, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Eight Sacrificial Scenes

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

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 · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 255905 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-06 06:36 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.