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. 23 shown for “Earring with ibex head” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 09:59 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.
Earring with ibex head

Earring with ibex head

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

Public domainThe Met
Capra ibex

Capra ibex

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ibex

Ibex

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

Public domainThe Met
Hummingbird heads

Hummingbird heads

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earrings with ibex head terminal

Earrings with ibex head terminal

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Twelve Earrings, by Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century

Designs for Twelve Earrings

Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century · 1865–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earrings with ibex head terminal

Earrings with ibex head terminal

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

Public domainThe Met
Siren Earrings, by Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815

Siren Earrings

Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815 · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earrings with ibex head terminal

Earrings with ibex head terminal

Artist not stated in the record · perhaps 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Inella ibex

Inella ibex

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

Artist not stated in the record · mid-1st century

Public domainThe Met
Design for earring with lion's head and diamond

Design for earring with lion's head and diamond

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring with head of ibex

Earring with head of ibex

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Earrings

Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earrings

Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-Painted Ibex Amphora from Malqata

Blue-Painted Ibex Amphora from Malqata

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

Public domainThe Met
Eriogonum ammophilum Reveal

Eriogonum ammophilum Reveal

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ibex-head earrings

Ibex-head earrings

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Woman's Head in Exotic Headdress

Woman's Head in Exotic Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ibex-Shaped Design Amulet Inscribed With A Crocodile and A Fish

Ibex-Shaped Design Amulet Inscribed With A Crocodile and A Fish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ram's Head

Ram's Head

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring with head of a ram

Earring with head of a ram

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head

Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

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. 469 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. 428046 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-27 09:59 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.