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. 18 shown for “Fragment of medallion of purple glass paste” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:14 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of medallion of purple glass paste

Fragment of medallion of purple glass paste

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass garland bowl

Glass garland bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1801–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of vases, by Sèvres Manufactory

Pair of vases

Sèvres Manufactory · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Sleeve fragments

Sleeve fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase (vase cuir) (one of a pair), by Sèvres Manufactory

Vase (vase cuir) (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lump of Blue Paste

Lump of Blue Paste

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer with Putti Medallion, by Gotha Porcelain Factory, German, established ca. 1757

Cup and Saucer with Putti Medallion

Gotha Porcelain Factory, German, established ca. 1757 · 1860–1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass cameo plaque fragment

Glass cameo plaque fragment

Artist not stated in the record · end of 1st century BCE–beginning of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion, by James Tassie

Medallion

James Tassie · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Medallion, by James Tassie

Medallion

James Tassie · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Glass ring stone

Glass ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Medallion with Christ from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Christ from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Medallion, by Sèvres Manufactory

Medallion

Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1785

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. 774 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. 2875338 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 22:14 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.