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 “Comb Tops” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:06 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.
Comb Tops

Comb Tops

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Rooster's Head

Rooster's Head

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comb

Comb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comb top

Comb top

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Hair Ornament and Jewelry Designs, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Hair Ornament and Jewelry Designs

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comb top

Comb top

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Hair Ornament and Jewelry Designs, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Hair Ornament and Jewelry Designs

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comb

Comb

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Wood hair comb from Ghana, by Unidentified

Wood hair comb from Ghana

Unidentified · 1950s

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

Cosmetic Box with a Swivel Top

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Flower pot

Flower pot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comb

Comb

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of decorative belt plaques

Set of decorative belt plaques

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Burgonet with Buffe

Burgonet with Buffe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1555–60

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Squash Window with Pebbles, by Louis C. Tiffany

Squash Window with Pebbles

Louis C. Tiffany · 1885–90

Public domainThe Met
Comb Case with Wig and Lice Combs

Comb Case with Wig and Lice Combs

Artist not stated in the record · 1671

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Burgonet, by Filippo Negroli

Burgonet

Filippo Negroli · dated 1543

Public domainThe Met
Bag for a travel hair care kit used by Anna Mae Queen Holmes

Bag for a travel hair care kit used by Anna Mae Queen Holmes

Artist not stated in the record · late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing table

Dressing table

Artist not stated in the record · 1710–30

Public domainThe Met
Comb

Comb

Artist not stated in the record · 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. 69 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 66373 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-01 07:06 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.