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 “Fragments of a cart or chariot, rings” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:26 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.
Fragments of a cart or chariot, rings

Fragments of a cart or chariot, rings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Paysage, Chariot Attelé de Boeufs

Paysage, Chariot Attelé de Boeufs

Artist not stated in the record · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze and iron fittings from a cart or chariot

Bronze and iron fittings from a cart or chariot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a Black woman with a white infant in Argentina

Carte-de-visite of a Black woman with a white infant in Argentina

Artist not stated in the record · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a cart or chariot

Fragment of a cart or chariot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a cart or chariot

Fragment of a cart or chariot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a cart or chariot, sockets

Fragments of a cart or chariot, sockets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of Edmonia Lewis

Carte-de-visite of Edmonia Lewis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a cart or chariot, sockets

Fragments of a cart or chariot, sockets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a young woman

Carte-de-visite of a young woman

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a cart or chariot, S-shaped braces

Fragments of a cart or chariot, S-shaped braces

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Apollo in His Chariot, by Unidentified

Apollo in His Chariot

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a cart or chariot, S-shaped braces

Fragments of a cart or chariot, S-shaped braces

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Neptune ou la maitrise du mer (Neptune or the Mastery of the Sea), by Petitpierre et Cie, Nantes, France, 1770–1848

Neptune ou la maitrise du mer (Neptune or the Mastery of the Sea)

Petitpierre et Cie, Nantes, France, 1770–1848 · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a cart or chariot, S-shaped braces

Fragments of a cart or chariot, S-shaped braces

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Candlestick

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1820-1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a cart or chariot, socket with satyr mask

Fragment of a cart or chariot, socket with satyr mask

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment, by Joseph Lockett

Fragment

Joseph Lockett · mid- 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a cart or chariot, hook, nails, double strip

Fragments of a cart or chariot, hook, nails, double strip

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The representation of Mount Etna with the forge of Vulcan.

The representation of Mount Etna with the forge of Vulcan.

Artist not stated in the record · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a cart or chariot, plaque with socket

Fragment of a cart or chariot, plaque with socket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 171 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. 3885503 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-28 06:26 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.