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. 18 shown for “Disk Ornament” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 09:58 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.
Mold for a Disk Ornament

Mold for a Disk Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Decoration, Teatro Valle, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceiling Decoration, Teatro Valle, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mold for a Disk Ornament

Mold for a Disk Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bellflower Ornament

Bellflower Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament

Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch or Hair Ornament in Shape of Feather

Design for Brooch or Hair Ornament in Shape of Feather

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament

Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Ornament

Disk Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · before 16th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pediment

Design for a Pediment

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk ornament

Disk ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk ornament

Disk ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Disk ornament

Disk ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Disk ornament

Disk ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Disk ornament

Disk ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Disk ornament

Disk ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Disk ornament

Disk ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 242 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. 37416 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 09:58 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.