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 necklace with emerald and variscite beads” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:28 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 necklace with emerald and variscite beads

Gold necklace with emerald and variscite beads

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ganymede jewelry

Ganymede jewelry

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

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · before 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold, emerald, carnelian, banded onyx, and garnet necklace

Gold, emerald, carnelian, banded onyx, and garnet necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace, by Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895

Necklace

Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895 · 1863–96

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold and emerald necklace

Gold and emerald necklace

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

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

Necklace

Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815 · ca. 1880–1900

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
Necklace

Necklace

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 500–800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold Necklace with Pearls and Stones of Emerald Plasma

Gold Necklace with Pearls and Stones of Emerald Plasma

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

Public domainThe Met
Samples, by Orinoka Mills, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Samples

Orinoka Mills, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold Necklace with Gold Cross, Two Amethysts, and an Emerald Plasma

Gold Necklace with Gold Cross, Two Amethysts, and an Emerald Plasma

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

Public domainThe Met
Green necklace with sequins from Josephine Baker's performance troupe, by Unidentified

Green necklace with sequins from Josephine Baker's performance troupe

Unidentified · 1920s-1930s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beads

Beads

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Rosette

Rosette

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 17th century, with 18th century additions

Public domainThe Met
Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja), by Kaikei

Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja)

Kaikei · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Gold necklace with inlaid amber

Gold necklace with inlaid amber

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 181 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1539910 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 10:28 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.