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. 15 shown for “Gold oktadrachm of Ptolemy III Euergetes” — 47 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:47 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 oktadrachm of Ptolemy III Euergetes

Gold oktadrachm of Ptolemy III Euergetes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 246–221 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ptolemy II, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Ptolemy II

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold oktadrachm of Ptolemy IV Philopator

Gold oktadrachm of Ptolemy IV Philopator

Artist not stated in the record · 221–204 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Plates, from a Napoleon III Table Service (Assiettes, Service à Chiffre Doré de l'Empereur Napoléon III), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Two Plates, from a Napoleon III Table Service (Assiettes, Service à Chiffre Doré de l'Empereur Napoléon III)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Ptolemy II or III

Head of Ptolemy II or III

Artist not stated in the record · 246–222 BCE

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash, by William Fountain, English

George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash

William Fountain, English · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold oktadrachm of Ptolemy II Philadelphos

Gold oktadrachm of Ptolemy II Philadelphos

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 261–246 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Imperial Presentation Box with Napoleon III's Cipher, by Louis-François Tronquoy, French, active 1827 - 1871

Imperial Presentation Box with Napoleon III's Cipher

Louis-François Tronquoy, French, active 1827 - 1871 · ca. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head, Ptolemy III (?)

Head, Ptolemy III (?)

Artist not stated in the record · 246–222 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Plates, from a Napoleon III Table Service (Assiettes, Service à Chiffre Doré de l'Empereur Napoléon III), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Two Plates, from a Napoleon III Table Service (Assiettes, Service à Chiffre Doré de l'Empereur Napoléon III)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1846–1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta Hadra hydria (water jar)

Terracotta Hadra hydria (water jar)

Artist not stated in the record · 226–225 BCE

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash

George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash

Artist not stated in the record · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dirham of Nasir al-Din Mahmud (r. 1201–22): Double-Headed Bird of Prey

Dirham of Nasir al-Din Mahmud (r. 1201–22): Double-Headed Bird of Prey

Artist not stated in the record · dated 615 AH/1218–19 CE

Public domainThe Met
Gold Medal from the 1867 World's Fair in Paris

Gold Medal from the 1867 World's Fair in Paris

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait

Portrait

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2866527 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 2026-08-28 21:47 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.