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 pendant in the form of an amphora” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 08:33 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.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Adam Weisweiler

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

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Public domainThe Met
Two Amphorae from the Museum at Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Two Amphorae from the Museum at Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 14-25, 1869

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
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
Amphora, by Unidentified (Roman)

Amphora

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table

Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Public domainThe Met
Amphora, by Unidentified

Amphora

Unidentified · 2nd century A.D.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories, by Wogdon & Barton

Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories

Wogdon & Barton · 1801–3

Public domainThe Met
Amphora, by Unidentified (Roman)

Amphora

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass pendant in the form of an amphora

Glass pendant in the form of an amphora

Artist not stated in the record · Late 7th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Amphora, by Unidentified (Roman)

Amphora

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass pendant in the form of an amphora

Glass pendant in the form of an amphora

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Locket

Locket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass pendant in the form of an amphora

Glass pendant in the form of an amphora

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table (Table mécanique), by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table (Table mécanique)

Jean Henri Riesener · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cross Pendant

Design for a Cross Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Cupids

Venus and Cupids

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger with Scabbard

Dagger with Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · 1605–27

Public domainThe Met
Chair

Chair

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature collector's cabinet, by Bernard Salomon

Miniature collector's cabinet

Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th 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. 1846 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. 7484730 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-07 08:33 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.