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 “Composite Armor” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:45 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.
Composite Armor, by Jörg Wagner

Composite Armor

Jörg Wagner · comprehensively ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Planometric View of Mazachebir

Planometric View of Mazachebir

Artist not stated in the record · 1610–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Burgonet with Falling Buffe

Burgonet with Falling Buffe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

Public domainThe Met
Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Composite Armor

Composite Armor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1485 and later, composed in the early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
La Franche Comté Conquise pour la Seconde Fois (Franche-Comté Conquered for the Second Time)

La Franche Comté Conquise pour la Seconde Fois (Franche-Comté Conquered for the Second Time)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1681–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse Armor Probably Made for Count Antonio IV Collalto (1548–1620)

Horse Armor Probably Made for Count Antonio IV Collalto (1548–1620)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–90 and later

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for Printed Cotton: Les Quatre Elements, by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Cartoon for Printed Cotton: Les Quatre Elements

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Unfinished cartoon for cotton printing: Unidentified subject, by B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836

Unfinished cartoon for cotton printing: Unidentified subject

B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cartoon for Printed Cotton: The Four Elements [Les Quatre Elements], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Cartoon for Printed Cotton: The Four Elements [Les Quatre Elements]

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jousting Armor, by Daniel Tachaux

Jousting Armor

Daniel Tachaux · ca. 1500 and later

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for Printed Cotton: The Four Elements [Les Quatre Elements], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Cartoon for Printed Cotton: The Four Elements [Les Quatre Elements]

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor for the Joust of Peace, by Daniel Tachaux

Armor for the Joust of Peace

Daniel Tachaux · ca. 1500 and later

Public domainThe Met
Cantle Plate (Rear Saddle Plate) From a Horse Armor Probably Made for Count Antonio IV Collalto (1548–1620)

Cantle Plate (Rear Saddle Plate) From a Horse Armor Probably Made for Count Antonio IV Collalto (1548–1620)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–90

Public domainThe Met
Philip IV (1605–1665) in Parade Armor, by Gaspar de Crayer

Philip IV (1605–1665) in Parade Armor

Gaspar de Crayer · ca. 1628

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man in Armor with Two Pages, by Paris Bordon

Portrait of a Man in Armor with Two Pages

Paris Bordon

Public domainThe Met
Armet

Armet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490, with later additions

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. 164 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 6050 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 2026-09-01 03:45 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.