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 inlay” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:05 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 wing inlay

Fragment of wing inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of inlay

Fragment of inlay

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay

Inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of inlay, also see F1909.584

Fragment of inlay, also see F1909.584

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century or later

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay

Inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of inlay

Fragment of inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay

Inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of inlay

Fragment of inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE-100 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay

Inlay

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of inlay

Fragment of inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay

Inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of inlay, also see F1909.583

Fragment of inlay, also see F1909.583

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century or later

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay

Inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of inlay or plate

Fragment of inlay or plate

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays

Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of inlay: a papyrus capital

Fragment of inlay: a papyrus capital

Artist not stated in the record · 1307-1196 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment

Inlay fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay

Fragment of an inlay

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment

Inlay fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of inlay

Fragment of inlay

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment

Inlay fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of inlay

Fragment of inlay

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of inlay

Fragment of inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 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. 35409 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. 2870775 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 2026-08-27 21:05 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.