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 elongated body” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 05:45 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 earring with elongated body

Gold earring with elongated body

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century 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
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
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
Gold crescent-shaped earring

Gold crescent-shaped earring

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Vase

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver earring with nail-head pendant

Silver earring with nail-head pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Earrings

Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold and enamel a baule earring

Gold and enamel a baule earring

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Potpourri Vases

Pair of Potpourri Vases

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of gold earrings with dolphins' heads with emerald, glass, and gold beads

Pair of gold earrings with dolphins' heads with emerald, glass, and gold beads

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Jacques Sicard, French, 1865–1923

Vase

Jacques Sicard, French, 1865–1923 · ca. 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lady with silver basket, by Giuseppe Gori

Lady with silver basket

Giuseppe Gori · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904

Vase

Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · ca. 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904

Vase

Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1880–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904

Vase

Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1880–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant

Pair of gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Shoe, inscribed "Souvenir de Wiesbade"

Shoe, inscribed "Souvenir de Wiesbade"

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Penannular Earrings (with 16.10.474)

Pair of Penannular Earrings (with 16.10.474)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Salt Spoon, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Salt Spoon

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Spiral Earrings (with 16.10.467)

Pair of Spiral Earrings (with 16.10.467)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Mustard Spoon, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Mustard Spoon

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

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. 107 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 407881 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 05:45 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.