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. 17 shown for “Fragment of block for slicing of inlay. Rod and plate mosaic” — 45 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:37 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.
Inlays and Shrine Elements

Inlays and Shrine Elements

Artist not stated in the record · 380–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of block for slicing of inlay. Rod and plate mosaic

Fragment of block for slicing of inlay. Rod and plate mosaic

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Minbar Doors

Pair of Minbar Doors

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–30

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of block for slicing inlay. Columnar and plate mosaic

Fragment of block for slicing inlay. Columnar and plate mosaic

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Bar for slicing inlays

Bar for slicing inlays

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE - 19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass garland bowl

Glass garland bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of inlay. Columnar rod and plate mosaic

Fragment of inlay. Columnar rod and plate mosaic

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sacristy cabinet

Sacristy cabinet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–80

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay plate, with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay plate, with a floral design

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of inlay or plate

Fragment of inlay or plate

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a rod for slicing

Fragment of a rod for slicing

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a bar

Fragment of a bar

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of bar for border inlays

Fragment of bar for border inlays

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of an oval tablet for inlay

Fragment of an oval tablet for inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 500-400 B.C.?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a border inlay

Fragment of a border inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of an inlay

Fragment of an inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3154023 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-04 01:37 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.