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 boat-shaped earring with a sphinx” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 05:48 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 boat-shaped earring with a sphinx

Gold boat-shaped earring with a sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 375–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sword Hilt with Fishing Boats and Water Birds

Sword Hilt with Fishing Boats and Water Birds

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant

Gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Earrings

Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

Artist not stated in the record · mid-1st century

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

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

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

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

Public domainThe Met
Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head

Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

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

Public domainThe Met
Basket-Shaped Dessert Dish with Boat Scene, by John Ridgway, English, ca. 1785 – 1860

Basket-Shaped Dessert Dish with Boat Scene

John Ridgway, English, ca. 1785 – 1860 · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

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

Public domainThe Met
Gold sequined dress with matching hat and purse, by Unidentified

Gold sequined dress with matching hat and purse

Unidentified · 1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

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

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
Earring

Earring

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

Public domainThe Met
Sauceboat (One of a Pair), by Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)

Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

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

Public domainThe Met
Pink turban headdress from Josephine Baker's performance troupe, by Unidentified

Pink turban headdress from Josephine Baker's performance troupe

Unidentified · ca. 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)

One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)

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

Public domainThe Met
Leaf-Moulded Sauceboat, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Leaf-Moulded Sauceboat

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sauceboat (One of a Pair), by Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)

Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776 · ca. 1750

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. 692 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. 43 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-02 05:48 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.