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. 18 shown for “Gold Necklace with Cross” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 01:40 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.
Gold Necklace with Cross

Gold Necklace with Cross

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Woman with Gold Necklace, by Prior-Hamblen School, n.d.

Woman with Gold Necklace

Prior-Hamblen School, n.d. · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold Necklace with Pendant Cross

Gold Necklace with Pendant Cross

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

Public domainThe Met
Byzantine-Style Mosaic Necklace with Christ and Twelve Apostles, by Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy)

Byzantine-Style Mosaic Necklace with Christ and Twelve Apostles

Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy) · 1870s-1910s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cross

Cross

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869), by Samuel Jackson

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)

Samuel Jackson · 1854–55

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja), by Kaikei

Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja)

Kaikei · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren

Carte-de-visite portrait of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren

Artist not stated in the record · 1880-1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Pierre Vernede

Watch

Pierre Vernede · ca. 1650

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

Necklace

Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895 · 1863–96

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun with Exchangeable Percussion Locks and Barrels, by Nicolas Noël Boutet

Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun with Exchangeable Percussion Locks and Barrels

Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1818–20; exchangeable percussion locks and barrels, dated 1860

Public domainThe Met
Gold Necklace with Gold Cross, Two Amethysts, and an Emerald Plasma

Gold Necklace with Gold Cross, Two Amethysts, and an Emerald Plasma

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

Public domainThe Met
Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat, by Richard Holden

Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat

Richard Holden · ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · second half 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Gold Necklace with Ornaments

Gold Necklace with Ornaments

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase (vase chinois) (one of a pair), by Sèvres Manufactory

Vase (vase chinois) (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1791

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. 1143 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 289974 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 2026-08-29 01:40 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.