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 “Earrings with bull head terminal” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:25 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.
Earrings with bull head terminal

Earrings with bull head terminal

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475–1564

Design for a Candlestick

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475–1564 · 1520–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring with bull head terminal

Earring with bull head terminal

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–mid 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of gold, garnet, enamel, and glass earrings

Pair of gold, garnet, enamel, and glass earrings

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Knife Sharpener with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Knife Sharpener with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

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

Earring with head of a bull

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

Public domainThe Met
Spoon with Flower-form Terminal

Spoon with Flower-form Terminal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold and copper alloy spiral earring with lion-griffin head terminal

Gold and copper alloy spiral earring with lion-griffin head terminal

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of the 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Skewer with Horse Head Terminal

Skewer with Horse Head Terminal

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold earring with head of a bull

Gold earring with head of a bull

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

Public domainThe Met
"Assyrian Head" Pattern Cheese Scoop, by Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Cheese Scoop

Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898 · 1885–86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Assyrian Head" Pattern Berry Spoon, by Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Berry Spoon

Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898 · 1885–86

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
Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th 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
Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

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

Earring with head of a bull

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

Public domainThe Met
Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Assyrian Head" Pattern Table Spoon, by Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Table Spoon

Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898 · 1885–86

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. 119 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 448234 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 12:25 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.