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. 24 shown for “Eye Bead” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:19 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.
Glass eye bead

Glass eye bead

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass eye bead

Glass eye bead

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead, with a horizontal bore

Eye-bead, with a horizontal bore

Artist not stated in the record · 305-30 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass eye bead

Glass eye bead

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead, with an eyelet and also a lateral bore

Eye-bead, with an eyelet and also a lateral bore

Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1307 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass eye bead

Glass eye bead

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead, with a horizontal bore

Eye-bead, with a horizontal bore

Artist not stated in the record · 305-30 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass compound eye bead

Glass compound eye bead

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead, with a lateral bore; the eyelet broken off

Eye-bead, with a lateral bore; the eyelet broken off

Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1307 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass eye beads

Glass eye beads

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead, with an eyelet and also a lateral bore

Eye-bead, with an eyelet and also a lateral bore

Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1307 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass eye beads

Glass eye beads

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead pendant

Eye-bead pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1196 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bead

Bead

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead, with an eyelet

Eye-bead, with an eyelet

Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1307 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eye Bead

Eye Bead

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

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead, with an eyelet and also a lateral bore

Eye-bead, with an eyelet and also a lateral bore

Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1307 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass eye bead

Glass eye bead

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead pendant

Eye-bead pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1196 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass eye bead

Glass eye bead

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–7th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead, with a lateral bore

Eye-bead, with a lateral bore

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass eye bead

Glass eye bead

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead

Eye-bead

Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1196 BCE

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. 361 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 39250 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 09:19 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.