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. 23 shown for “Glass Rods Fused Together” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:52 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.
Glass Rods Fused Together

Glass Rods Fused Together

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mosaic Glass Patella Cup, by Unidentified (Roman Empire)

Mosaic Glass Patella Cup

Unidentified (Roman Empire) · 1st century BC-2nd century AD

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock, by James Cox

Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock

James Cox · 1766

Public domainThe Met
Bowl, by Unidentified

Bowl

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fused Rods of Opaque Blue Glass

Fused Rods of Opaque Blue Glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Flask, by Unidentified (Roman Empire)

Flask

Unidentified (Roman Empire) · 1st-4th century AD

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Collar Pendant

Collar Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Amphora, by Unidentified (Roman)

Amphora

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass garland bowl

Glass garland bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Flask, by Unidentified (Roman)

Flask

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 100–300

Public domainThe Met
Bowl, by Unidentified

Bowl

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Millefiori bowl, by Vincenzo Moretti

Millefiori bowl

Vincenzo Moretti · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Unidentified

Vase

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlays and Shrine Elements

Inlays and Shrine Elements

Artist not stated in the record · 380–30 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Unidentified (Roman)

Vase

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass mosaic bead

Glass mosaic bead

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Vessel, by Unidentified

Vessel

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle, by Unidentified

Bottle

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gold-band mosaic scyphus (drinking cup)

Glass gold-band mosaic scyphus (drinking cup)

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

Public domainThe Met
Flask, by Unidentified

Flask

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold-glass skyphos (drinking cup) fragment

Gold-glass skyphos (drinking cup) fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vial, by Unidentified

Vial

Unidentified

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. 88 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. 89649 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 2026-08-28 12:52 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.