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. 23 shown for “Gold earring with filigree decoration” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 00:57 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 filigree decoration

Gold earring with filigree decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Earrings

Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

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

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird-Shaped Brooch

Bird-Shaped Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · second half 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird-Shaped Brooch

Bird-Shaped Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · second half 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 650–725

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

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
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 · mid-1st century

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Earrings

Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · before 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boat-shaped earrings with filigree and granule decoration

Boat-shaped earrings with filigree and granule decoration

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

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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. 266 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. 424855 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-07 00:57 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.