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. 19 shown for “Dagger (Katar) Model” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:42 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.
Dagger (Katar) Model

Dagger (Katar) Model

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Dorothy Cook Katar, by Thomas Eakins, born Philadelphia, PA 1844-died Philadelphia, PA 1916

Dorothy Cook Katar

Thomas Eakins, born Philadelphia, PA 1844-died Philadelphia, PA 1916 · ca. 1892?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger with Hilt in the Form of a Blue Bull (Nilgai)

Dagger with Hilt in the Form of a Blue Bull (Nilgai)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bedouin Figure with Knife Drawn, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Standing Bedouin Figure with Knife Drawn

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1869-1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger (Katar)

Dagger (Katar)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fares A. Ferzan Models Syrian Costume with Sword, Dagger, and Rifle (front), by Smillie, T. W (Thomas William) 1843-1917

Fares A. Ferzan Models Syrian Costume with Sword, Dagger, and Rifle (front)

Smillie, T. W (Thomas William) 1843-1917 · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger (Katar) and Sheath

Dagger (Katar) and Sheath

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fares A. Ferzan Models Syrian Costume with Sword, Dagger, and Rifle (back), by Smillie, T. W (Thomas William) 1843-1917

Fares A. Ferzan Models Syrian Costume with Sword, Dagger, and Rifle (back)

Smillie, T. W (Thomas William) 1843-1917 · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model dagger

Model dagger

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fares A. Ferzan Models Syrian Costume with Sword, Dagger, and Rifle, by Smillie, T. W (Thomas William) 1843-1917

Fares A. Ferzan Models Syrian Costume with Sword, Dagger, and Rifle

Smillie, T. W (Thomas William) 1843-1917 · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model dagger

Model dagger

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fares A. Ferzan Models Syrian Costume with Sword and Dagger, by Smillie, T. W (Thomas William) 1843-1917

Fares A. Ferzan Models Syrian Costume with Sword and Dagger

Smillie, T. W (Thomas William) 1843-1917 · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Dagger and Sheath

Model Dagger and Sheath

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Semanotus japonicus posticeinterruptus

Semanotus japonicus posticeinterruptus

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Apr 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model dagger of Ukhhotep

Model dagger of Ukhhotep

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Sheath for a Model Dagger

Sheath for a Model Dagger

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Model Broad Collar of Hapiankhtifi

Model Broad Collar of Hapiankhtifi

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Model blade of a dagger

Model blade of a dagger

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Dagger (Katar)

Dagger (Katar)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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. 117 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. 32175 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 2026-08-28 18:42 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.