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. 20 shown for “Glass ring” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:27 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 ring stone

Glass ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chandelier

Design for a Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass ring stone

Glass ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pendant in the form of a faceted ring

Pendant in the form of a faceted ring

Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass ring stone

Glass ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chandelier

Design for a Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass ring stone

Glass ring stone

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

Public domainThe Met
German green glass series, by Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian, 1829 - 1917

German green glass series

Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian, 1829 - 1917 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass ring stone

Glass ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Broken Glass Bottle Excavated in Anacostia

Broken Glass Bottle Excavated in Anacostia

Artist not stated in the record · After 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass ring stone

Glass ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chandelier

Design for a Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass ring stone

Glass ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Chandelier

Project for a Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue glass ring stone

Blue glass ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chandelier

Design for a Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colorless glass ring stone

Colorless glass ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Yellow glass ring stone

Yellow glass ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Black glass ring stone

Black glass ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ring

Ring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–721 BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 786 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. 84302 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 08:27 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.