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 “Disk (bi) with raised curls, fragment” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:56 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.
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Disk (bi) with raised curls, fragment

Disk (bi) with raised curls, fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 475 BCE-9 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with seated Tatenen (or Ptah-Tatenen)

Tile with seated Tatenen (or Ptah-Tatenen)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid and masks, reworked

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid and masks, reworked

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-9 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crowned Bodhisattva

Crowned Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–early 4th century

Public domainThe Met
Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid

Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Tutankhamun

Head of Tutankhamun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid

Artist not stated in the record · 1736-1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass ornaments

Glass ornaments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1370–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls

Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot), by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Public domainThe Met
Disk (bi) with raised linked curls

Disk (bi) with raised linked curls

Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of Stela depicting a figure labeled 'excellent spirit of Re' facing Ramesses I and Ahmose-Nefertari beneath the barque of Re

Fragment of Stela depicting a figure labeled 'excellent spirit of Re' facing Ramesses I and Ahmose-Nefertari beneath the barque of Re

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid

Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battle at Rokuhara, from The Tale of the Heiji Rebellion

Battle at Rokuhara, from The Tale of the Heiji Rebellion

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls

Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid

Artist not stated in the record · 475-100 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, by Gerard David

Christ Blessing

Gerard David · ca. 1500–1505

Public domainThe Met
Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid

Artist not stated in the record · 475 BCE-9 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal pendant

Animal pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Disk (bi) with raised pyramids arranged in a grid, fragment, redecorated

Disk (bi) with raised pyramids arranged in a grid, fragment, redecorated

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · 1480–89

Public domainThe Met
Disk (bi) with raised hexagons arranged in a grid and birds, reworked

Disk (bi) with raised hexagons arranged in a grid and birds, reworked

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 287918 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-05 07:56 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.