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. 17 shown for “Goa Stone and Gold Case” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:32 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.
Goa Stone and Gold Case

Goa Stone and Gold Case

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Gold pencil and case owned by the Terrell family, by Unidentified

Gold pencil and case owned by the Terrell family

Unidentified · 1863-1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apothecary Cabinet, by Nicolaus I Kolb

Apothecary Cabinet

Nicolaus I Kolb · 1617–18

Public domainThe Met
Watch

Watch

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
Knife case

Knife case

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saber with Scabbard

Saber with Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · grip, 18th or 19th century; guard and scabbard, 19th century; blade, dated A.H. 1099/1688 CE; decoration on blade, 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Gold wireless microphone and black case used on The Oprah Winfrey Show

Gold wireless microphone and black case used on The Oprah Winfrey Show

Artist not stated in the record · 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smallsword with Scabbard

Smallsword with Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Case, by Gavet Coutelier, France

Case

Gavet Coutelier, France · 1809–19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair-case automaton watch, by James Cox

Pair-case automaton watch

James Cox · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Letter case

Letter case

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Wilhelm Peffenhauser

Watch

Wilhelm Peffenhauser · watch ca. 1650, cameo 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Armored Cavalryman

Armored Cavalryman

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Nécessaire, by James Cox

Nécessaire

James Cox · ca. 1770–72

Public domainThe Met
Saber and Dart with Scabbard

Saber and Dart with Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Saber with Scabbard and Carrying Belt, by Georg Hoffmann

Saber with Scabbard and Carrying Belt

Georg Hoffmann · early 17th century

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. 357 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. 1506595 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 02:32 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.