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 “Dress Sword” — 40 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:55 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Design for Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword

Design for Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword

Design for Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword with Alternative Suggestions

Design for a Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dress Sword

Dress Sword

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
sword

sword

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman at her Toilette, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Woman at her Toilette

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketchbook Page, Folio 64: Study after Bolognese Architecture and Monuments, Including Arch of San Domenico; Verso: Geometric Studies, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketchbook Page, Folio 64: Study after Bolognese Architecture and Monuments, Including Arch of San Domenico; Verso: Geometric Studies

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
(Figurine Series) Seated Man with Pointed Helmet, by Salvator Rosa, Italian, born Naples, Italy 1615-died Rome, Italy 1673

(Figurine Series) Seated Man with Pointed Helmet

Salvator Rosa, Italian, born Naples, Italy 1615-died Rome, Italy 1673

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
(Figurine Series) Helmeted Man with Ornate Spear/Ax, by Salvator Rosa, Italian, born Naples, Italy 1615-died Rome, Italy 1673

(Figurine Series) Helmeted Man with Ornate Spear/Ax

Salvator Rosa, Italian, born Naples, Italy 1615-died Rome, Italy 1673

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for Equestrian Monument, by Solon H. Borglum, born Ogden, UT 1868-died Stamford, CT 1922

Study for Equestrian Monument

Solon H. Borglum, born Ogden, UT 1868-died Stamford, CT 1922 · 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Simon Bolivar, by Charon, n.d.

Simon Bolivar

Charon, n.d. · n.d.

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 26476 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 10:55 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.