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. 23 shown for “Crown with disks” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 09:07 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 disks

Crown with disks

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a sedan chair

Design for a sedan chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crown with disks

Crown with disks

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a sedan chair

Design for a sedan chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crown with disks

Crown with disks

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a sedan chair

Design for a sedan chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crown with disks fragment

Crown with disks fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Photograph portraits of Josephine Sampson

Photograph portraits of Josephine Sampson

Artist not stated in the record · 1910s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crown with disks and right ear

Crown with disks and right ear

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

Public domainThe Met
Four Designs for Brooches in the "Byzantine" Style, by Carlo Ansorge, German, active Rome, 1800–89

Four Designs for Brooches in the "Byzantine" Style

Carlo Ansorge, German, active Rome, 1800–89 · 1860–65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crown, by North Coast artist(s)

Crown

North Coast artist(s) · 800–1400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Black vinyl hat with wide brim, by Hats by Estelle, American

Black vinyl hat with wide brim

Hats by Estelle, American · late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crown, by Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

Crown

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

Public domainThe Met
Cream hat with cream and pink fabric flowers, by Hecht's, American, 1857 - 2006

Cream hat with cream and pink fabric flowers

Hecht's, American, 1857 - 2006 · mid-20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Cap crown

Cap crown

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crown with discs

Crown with discs

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

Public domainThe Met
Straw hat with net and cream peony, by Hattie Carnegie, American, 1886 - 1956

Straw hat with net and cream peony

Hattie Carnegie, American, 1886 - 1956 · 1947-1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring with busts of Osiris and Isis twisted so as to form a bezel

Ring with busts of Osiris and Isis twisted so as to form a bezel

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Hat with green fabric flowers and rhinestones, by Frances Original, American

Hat with green fabric flowers and rhinestones

Frances Original, American · 1950s-1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Knife with Crown Topped Handle

Knife with Crown Topped Handle

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of King Seti II Wearing the Blue Crown

Head of King Seti II Wearing the Blue Crown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Orange damask hat with elephant print, by Unidentified

Orange damask hat with elephant print

Unidentified · ca. 1970

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. 5110 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 253042 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-29 09:07 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.