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. 15 shown for “Crown with discs, uraeus coils and frontlet” — 49 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 16:24 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.
Crown with discs, uraeus coils and frontlet

Crown with discs, uraeus coils and frontlet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Letter case

Letter case

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crown with discs and uraeus coils

Crown with discs and uraeus coils

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crown with discs and frontlet or rear edging

Crown with discs and frontlet or rear edging

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bird cage in the form of a circus wagon

Bird cage in the form of a circus wagon

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse frontlet carved in relief with a female figure flanked by lions

Horse frontlet carved in relief with a female figure flanked by lions

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

Public domainThe Met
White braided pillbox hat, by Unidentified

White braided pillbox hat

Unidentified · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse blinker carved in relief with a seated sphinx

Horse blinker carved in relief with a seated sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of a man in wooly chaps holding a coil of rope

Photographic postcard of a man in wooly chaps holding a coil of rope

Artist not stated in the record · 1917-1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Furniture plaque carved in high relief with two Egyptianizing figures flanking a volute tree

Furniture plaque carved in high relief with two Egyptianizing figures flanking a volute tree

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

Public domainThe Met
"Assyrian Head" Pattern Cheese Scoop, by Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Cheese Scoop

Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898 · 1885–86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse Muzzle

Horse Muzzle

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation of a Reliquary Cross, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Elevation of a Reliquary Cross

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–40

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 2 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. 1524778 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 16:24 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.