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. 12 shown for “Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:40 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories, by James Purdey the Elder

Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories

James Purdey the Elder · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock, by James Cox

Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock

James Cox · 1766

Public domainThe Met
Crib of the Infant Jesus

Crib of the Infant Jesus

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Miniature secretary incorporating a watch, by James Cox

Miniature secretary incorporating a watch

James Cox · ca. 1766–72

Public domainThe Met
Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories, by Nicolas Noël Boutet

Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories

Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories, by Wogdon & Barton

Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories

Wogdon & Barton · 1801–3

Public domainThe Met
Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head

Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head

Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head

Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head

Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head

Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head

Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1050 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. 8394 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 15:40 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.