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 “Dish with Heraldic Shield” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:57 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.
Dish with Heraldic Shield

Dish with Heraldic Shield

Artist not stated in the record · 1470–1500

Public domainThe Met
Heraldic Achievement Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Heraldic Achievement Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Heraldic Achievement Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Heraldic Achievement Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page: Heraldic Achievement Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Title Page: Heraldic Achievement Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Abraham and Melchizedek, by Hans of Landshut

Dish with Abraham and Melchizedek

Hans of Landshut · 1498

Public domainThe Met
Title Page: Heraldic Achievement Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Title Page: Heraldic Achievement Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Messenger Badge and Shield

Messenger Badge and Shield

Artist not stated in the record · badge, 1400–1450; shield, ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 1801–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Wild Man Supporting a Heraldic Shield

Roundel with Wild Man Supporting a Heraldic Shield

Artist not stated in the record · 1510–30

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Nude Woman Supporting a Heraldic Shield

Roundel with Nude Woman Supporting a Heraldic Shield

Artist not stated in the record · 1515–30

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield Bearer with the Ducal Arms of Saxony, by Hans Daucher

Shield Bearer with the Ducal Arms of Saxony

Hans Daucher · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Heraldic Achievement Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Heraldic Achievement Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Nude Woman Supporting a Heraldic Shield, by Jan Gossart (called Mabuse)

Roundel with Nude Woman Supporting a Heraldic Shield

Jan Gossart (called Mabuse) · ca. 1515–30

Public domainThe Met
Heraldic Achievement Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Heraldic Achievement Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield

Shield

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with Wild Man Finial

Ewer with Wild Man Finial

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Heraldic Achievement Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Heraldic Achievement Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th–early 18th 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. 268 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 362746 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-03 15:57 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.