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 “Design for a Badge of the Sicilian Military Order” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:58 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.
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Badge of the Sicilian Military Order

Design for a Badge of the Sicilian Military Order

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham

Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1488–1501

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Badge of the Tuscan Order of St. Stephen

Design for a Badge of the Tuscan Order of St. Stephen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, GAR badge

Wire frame, GAR badge

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crozier Head with Lamb of God

Crozier Head with Lamb of God

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester

Portrait of William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi, by Master of Pedret

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi

Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, G.A.R. badge

Wire frame, G.A.R. badge

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with the emblem of the Order of Saint Augustine

Jar with the emblem of the Order of Saint Augustine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–1600

Public domainThe Met
Designating Flag, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, by William F. Scheible

Designating Flag, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps

William F. Scheible · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Designating Flag, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, by William F. Scheible

Designating Flag, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps

William F. Scheible · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Badge for an Order

Badge for an Order

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Napoleon I, by baron François Gérard

Portrait of Napoleon I

baron François Gérard · designed 1805, woven 1808–11

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, by Giambologna

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, policeman's badge

Wire frame, policeman's badge

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Console table, by Richard de Lalonde

Console table

Richard de Lalonde · 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Equestrian portrait of William, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765), by David Morier

Equestrian portrait of William, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765)

David Morier · ca. 1751–60

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

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. 1743 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. 3974703 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 2026-09-06 02:58 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.