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 “Gold Earring with Pearls and Sapphires” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:19 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.
Rolltop desk, by David Roentgen

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Public domainThe Met
Lovers in a Boat, by Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895

Lovers in a Boat

Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold Earring with Pearls and Sapphires

Gold Earring with Pearls and Sapphires

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Necklace, by Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895

Necklace

Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold Earring with Pearls and Sapphires

Gold Earring with Pearls and Sapphires

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crib of the Infant Jesus

Crib of the Infant Jesus

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Pendant, by Ernesto Pierret, French, b. 1824

Pendant

Ernesto Pierret, French, b. 1824 · 1875–90

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
Guilloche Enamel Match Safe, by August Wilhelm Holmström, Finnish, 1829 - 1903

Guilloche Enamel Match Safe

August Wilhelm Holmström, Finnish, 1829 - 1903 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature secretary incorporating a watch, by James Cox

Miniature secretary incorporating a watch

James Cox · ca. 1766–72

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Parure with Rubies and Pearls

Design for a Parure with Rubies and Pearls

Artist not stated in the record · Possibly 19th 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
Design for an Earring

Design for an Earring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rapier of Prince-Elector Christian II of Saxony (1583–1611), by Israel Schuech

Rapier of Prince-Elector Christian II of Saxony (1583–1611)

Israel Schuech · dated 1606

Public domainThe Met
Heart Ring, by Florence Koehler, born Jackson, MI 1861-died Rome, Italy 1944

Heart Ring

Florence Koehler, born Jackson, MI 1861-died Rome, Italy 1944 · ca. 1905-1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair-case quarter-repeating watch, by John Champion

Pair-case quarter-repeating watch

John Champion · ca. 1770–72

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Earring

Design for an Earring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Earrings

Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Portable desk

Portable desk

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Microscope, by Claude-Siméon Passemant

Microscope

Claude-Siméon Passemant · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
USS West Virginia Pearl Harbor Survivors hat worn by Ck2 George Francis Bland

USS West Virginia Pearl Harbor Survivors hat worn by Ck2 George Francis Bland

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1991

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. 1644 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. 1652453 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-03 13:19 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.