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. 22 shown for “Gold armband with Herakles knot” — 50 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:22 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 armband with Herakles knot

Gold armband with Herakles knot

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

Public domainThe Met
Mitre

Mitre

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold fillet with a Herakles knot

Gold fillet with a Herakles knot

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sleeve

Sleeve

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold cross-strap diadem with a Herakles knot set with five garnets

Gold cross-strap diadem with a Herakles knot set with five garnets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300–250 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold and garnet strap diadem with Herakles knot

Gold and garnet strap diadem with Herakles knot

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

Public domainThe Met
Fringe

Fringe

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ganymede jewelry

Ganymede jewelry

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Figure

Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of bracelets with rock crystal hoops and gold rams' heads

Pair of bracelets with rock crystal hoops and gold rams' heads

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver mirror

Silver mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Mounted Origami Crane with Gold Ribbon, by Ira Blount

Mounted Origami Crane with Gold Ribbon

Ira Blount · 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bracelet with Agathodaimon, Isis-Tyche, Aphrodite, and Thermouthis

Bracelet with Agathodaimon, Isis-Tyche, Aphrodite, and Thermouthis

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

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bracelet with spirally twisted strands and a Herakles knot at the bezel

Bracelet with spirally twisted strands and a Herakles knot at the bezel

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Army mess dress blue jacket worn by Louis J. Beasley, by Kenzar, Japanese

Army mess dress blue jacket worn by Louis J. Beasley

Kenzar, Japanese · mid 20th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tupu (pin)

Tupu (pin)

Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1533 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bracelet

Bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · mid-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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 270355 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-27 16:22 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.