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. 21 shown for “Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls” — 50 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:17 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.
Glass ornaments

Glass ornaments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1370–1200 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
"Bahram Gur Sees a Herd of Deer Mesmerized by Dilaram' s Music", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

"Bahram Gur Sees a Herd of Deer Mesmerized by Dilaram' s Music", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

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
Salvator Mundi, by Albrecht Dürer

Salvator Mundi

Albrecht Dürer · ca. 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 · 1736-1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vitellius tazza

Vitellius tazza

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1587–99, foot added after mid-19th 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
Canine vessel, by South central Veracruz artist(s)

Canine vessel

South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600-900 CE

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
Animal pendant

Animal pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

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
Haniwa (Clay Sculpture) of a Female Shrine Attendant

Haniwa (Clay Sculpture) of a Female Shrine Attendant

Artist not stated in the record · 6th 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
Earring

Earring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th–4th century 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 BCE-9 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with a youth grasping a tree; winged sun disc above

Panel with a youth grasping a tree; winged sun disc above

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

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
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
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 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
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 257705 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 06:17 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.