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 “Glass gold-band mosaic fragment” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:27 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 gold-band mosaic lid fragment

Glass gold-band mosaic lid fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay

Fragment of an inlay

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gold-band mosaic fragment

Glass gold-band mosaic fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a bowl

Fragment of a bowl

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gold-band mosaic fragment

Glass gold-band mosaic fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Frieze

Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gold-band mosaic bowl fragment

Glass gold-band mosaic bowl fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

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 a vessel

Fragment of a vessel

Artist not stated in the record · 8th-9th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gold-band mosaic bowl fragment

Glass gold-band mosaic bowl fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gold-band mosaic bowl fragment

Glass gold-band mosaic bowl fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment, by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904

Fragment

Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gold-band mosaic bowl fragment

Glass gold-band mosaic bowl fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gold-band mosaic bowl fragment

Glass gold-band mosaic bowl fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

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
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gold-band mosaic bottle

Glass gold-band mosaic bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gold-band mosaic bottle

Glass gold-band mosaic bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

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. 621 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 352 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 19:27 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.