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 plaque fragment with floral motifs” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:30 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 plaque fragment with floral motifs

Glass mosaic plaque fragment with floral motifs

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

Public domainThe Met
Mosaic plaque depicting cartouche motif

Mosaic plaque depicting cartouche motif

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

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

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral plaque

Floral plaque

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay plate, with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay plate, with a floral design

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral plaque

Floral plaque

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass mosaic inlay

Glass mosaic inlay

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass mosaic inlay

Glass mosaic inlay

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral plaque

Floral plaque

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral plaque

Floral plaque

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral plaque

Floral plaque

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern. Mended with lacquer

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern. Mended with lacquer

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral plaque

Floral plaque

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with floral design

Fragment of an inlay with floral design

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral plaque

Floral plaque

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

Public domainThe Met
Fused mosaic plaque

Fused mosaic plaque

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral plaque

Floral plaque

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

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. 100 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. 348051 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 12:30 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.