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 mosaic base ring fragment” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:24 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 mosaic base ring fragment

Glass mosaic base ring fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a ring

Fragment of a ring

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosaic glass fragment

Mosaic glass fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–early 1st century 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
Glass garland bowl

Glass garland bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a bowl

Fragment of a bowl

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

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

Glass mosaic bowl fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
A Fragment. Columnar rod and plate mosaic

A Fragment. Columnar rod and plate mosaic

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

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

Glass mosaic bowl fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of block for slicing inlay. Columnar and plate mosaic

Fragment of block for slicing inlay. Columnar and plate mosaic

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

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

Glass mosaic bowl fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Rim fragment of a bowl or cup

Rim fragment of a bowl or cup

Artist not stated in the record · 200 BCE-100 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gladiator cup

Glass gladiator cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–80 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass mosaic jar

Glass mosaic jar

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ribbed mosaic glass bowl with base ring

Ribbed mosaic glass bowl with base ring

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 · 1st century or later

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass network mosaic bowl with base ring

Glass network mosaic bowl with base ring

Artist not stated in the record · mid-1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass network mosaic bowl with base ring

Glass network mosaic bowl with base ring

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of inlay. Columnar rod mosaic

Fragment of inlay. Columnar rod mosaic

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

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
Fragment of inlay. Columnar rod and plate mosaic

Fragment of inlay. Columnar rod and plate mosaic

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. 89 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 173097 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 17:24 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.