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 “Enameled Element of a Huqqa” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:26 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.
Enameled Element of a Huqqa

Enameled Element of a Huqqa

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
chatelaine, by G. Parvis

chatelaine

G. Parvis · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Seal of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff owned by Gen. Colin Powell, by United States Department of Defense

Seal of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff owned by Gen. Colin Powell

United States Department of Defense · 1989-1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Element

Element

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, turquoise glass handle

Bouquet holder, turquoise glass handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Element

Element

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, enamel on vase and handle

Bouquet holder, enamel on vase and handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, enameled flower handle

Bouquet holder, enameled flower handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enameled and Gilded Bottle

Enameled and Gilded Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, ornate with enamel handle

Bouquet holder, ornate with enamel handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, woman and bird motif with enamel handle

Bouquet holder, woman and bird motif with enamel handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Element of a Border for an Icon Frame

Element of a Border for an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, light blue enamel handle

Bouquet holder, light blue enamel handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Element of a Border for an Icon Frame

Element of a Border for an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Seal with Egg-Shaped Handle

Seal with Egg-Shaped Handle

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Element of a Border for an Icon Frame

Element of a Border for an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Cloisonne Enamel Teaspoon, Part of a Set of Six, by Pavel Ovchinnikov, Russian, 1830 - 1888

Cloisonne Enamel Teaspoon, Part of a Set of Six

Pavel Ovchinnikov, Russian, 1830 - 1888 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Element of a Border for an Icon Frame

Element of a Border for an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Element of a Border for an Icon Frame

Element of a Border for an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 10th 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. 213 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. 3856095 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-03 01:26 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.