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 “Fragment of Lotus Collar Terminals” — 60 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:34 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.
Fragment of Lotus Collar Terminals

Fragment of Lotus Collar Terminals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 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
Fragment of Lotus Collar Terminals

Fragment of Lotus Collar Terminals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 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
Fragment of Lotus Collar Terminals

Fragment of Lotus Collar Terminals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 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
Miniature broad collar

Miniature broad collar

Artist not stated in the record · 332–246 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chair, by Duncan Phyfe, American, 1768–1854

Chair

Duncan Phyfe, American, 1768–1854 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewelry Elements for a Broad Collar

Jewelry Elements for a Broad Collar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 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
Broad Collar

Broad Collar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 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
Fragment from the Backplate of an Icon

Fragment from the Backplate of an Icon

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Side chair

Side chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral Garland Fragments

Floral Garland Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1051–1002 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tea Caddy Spoon, by Edward C. Moore (1827-1891)

Tea Caddy Spoon

Edward C. Moore (1827-1891) · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Collar fragment

Collar fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Collar fragment

Collar fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reconstructed lotiform chalice

Reconstructed lotiform chalice

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragments

Textile Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat fragments

Waistcoat fragments

Artist not stated in the record · late 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. 20 matched · 20 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. 2872495 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 15:34 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.