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. 20 shown for “Gold copy of a bracelet” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:52 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 copy of a bracelet

Gold copy of a bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold copy of a bracelet

Gold copy of a bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bracelets

Bracelets

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia, by John Targee

Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia

John Targee · ca. 1815–17

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary

Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Portrait miniature set on a bracelet, by Ebenezer Mack, American

Portrait miniature set on a bracelet

Ebenezer Mack, American · ca. 1790 (portrait miniature); ca. 1830 (bracelet)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold phiale (libation bowl)

Gold phiale (libation bowl)

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

Public domainThe Met
Bracelet

Bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau), by Sèvres Manufactory

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1758

Public domainThe Met
Bracelet

Bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray, by Sèvres Manufactory

Tray

Sèvres Manufactory · 1836

Public domainThe Met
Earrings, bracelet and brooch

Earrings, bracelet and brooch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield of Henry II of France (reigned 1547–59)

Shield of Henry II of France (reigned 1547–59)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Baby doll bracelet designed by Patrick Kelly, by Patrick Kelly, American, 1954 - 1990

Baby doll bracelet designed by Patrick Kelly

Patrick Kelly, American, 1954 - 1990 · 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bracelet, by Honore Severin Bourdoncle, French, 1823 - 1893

Bracelet

Honore Severin Bourdoncle, French, 1823 - 1893 · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bracelet

Bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earrings, bracelet and brooch

Earrings, bracelet and brooch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

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. 1319 matched · 24 examined · 16 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3855747 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-28 12:52 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.