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. 12 shown for “Disk (bi) with raised hexagons arranged in a grid and birds, reworked” — 40 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:59 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.
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
Disk (bi) with raised hexagons arranged in a grid and interlaced birds

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

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Disk (bi) with raised hexagons arranged in a grid, dragon, and feline

Disk (bi) with raised hexagons arranged in a grid, dragon, and feline

Artist not stated in the record · 100-220

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
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
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
Disk (bi) with raised pyramids arranged in a grid, redecorated

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

Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
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
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
Disk (bi 璧) with knobs

Disk (bi 璧) with knobs

Artist not stated in the record · 3300-2250 BCE

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7484851 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 07:59 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.