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 “Collar with medallions containing coins of emperors” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:44 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.
Collar with medallions containing coins of emperors

Collar with medallions containing coins of emperors

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 225 CE

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Girdle with Coins and Medallions

Girdle with Coins and Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 583, reassembled after discovery

Public domainThe Met
Collar

Collar

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coin cabinet, by Charles Percier

Coin cabinet

Charles Percier · ca. 1809–19

Public domainThe Met
Collar

Collar

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral with Coins and Pseudo-Medallion

Pectoral with Coins and Pseudo-Medallion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 539–50

Public domainThe Met
Emperor Napoleon III

Emperor Napoleon III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold aurei of the Twelve Caesars

Gold aurei of the Twelve Caesars

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 46 BCE–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Collar

Collar

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Christening gown

Christening gown

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold Bracteate

Gold Bracteate

Artist not stated in the record · 400–600

Public domainThe Met
Collar

Collar

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ivory portrait head of the emperor Augustus

Ivory portrait head of the emperor Augustus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
The Landing of the Fathers at Plymouth, by Enoch Wood, English, 1759 - 1840

The Landing of the Fathers at Plymouth

Enoch Wood, English, 1759 - 1840 · 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker with figure and Spondylus shell, by Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

Beaker with figure and Spondylus shell

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Public domainThe Met
"Medallion" Pattern Sifting Spoon, by Ball, Black & Co.

"Medallion" Pattern Sifting Spoon

Ball, Black & Co. · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of the Right Top Part of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for the Embroidery of the Right Top Part of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Collar

Collar

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

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. 62 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. 2903289 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-27 03:44 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.