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 earring with winged figure” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:27 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 winged figure

Gold earring with winged figure

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

Public domainThe Met
Siren Earrings, by Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815

Siren Earrings

Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815 · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold earring with winged figure

Gold earring with winged figure

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

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of a Dog, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Figure of a Dog

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1741

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold earring with winged figure

Gold earring with winged figure

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

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold earring with winged figure

Gold earring with winged figure

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

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey

Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th or early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold earring with winged figure (one of a pair)

Gold earring with winged figure (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold earring with winged figure (one of a pair)

Gold earring with winged figure (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study for "The Crescent Moon", by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Study for "The Crescent Moon"

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ear ornament with winged runner, by Moche artist(s)

Ear ornament with winged runner

Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ear ornament with winged runner, by Moche artist(s)

Ear ornament with winged runner

Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Study of Pendentive Figure for Electricity, Dome of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, by J. Carroll Beckwith, American, 1852–1917

Study of Pendentive Figure for Electricity, Dome of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL

J. Carroll Beckwith, American, 1852–1917 · 1891–92

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earrings with Assyrian human-headed winged bulls

Earrings with Assyrian human-headed winged bulls

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–1875

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 423 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. 438659 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 2026-08-27 03:27 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.