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 pendant ring with carnelian scaraboid” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:39 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 pendant ring with carnelian scaraboid

Gold pendant ring with carnelian scaraboid

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

Public domainThe Met
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of jewelry

Set of jewelry

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carnelian scaraboid

Carnelian scaraboid

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Pendant, by Antonio Civilotti, 1798 - 1870

Pendant

Antonio Civilotti, 1798 - 1870 · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold ring with plain carnelian scaraboid

Gold ring with plain carnelian scaraboid

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold ring with a carnelian scaraboid gem

Gold ring with a carnelian scaraboid gem

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Brooch in the form of a pansy, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Brooch in the form of a pansy

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring

Ring

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Cupids

Venus and Cupids

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver pendant with carnelian scarab

Silver pendant with carnelian scarab

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold earring with lotus flower pendant

Gold earring with lotus flower pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Five Detail Designs for Pendants

Five Detail Designs for Pendants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold swivel ring with carnelian scarab

Gold swivel ring with carnelian scarab

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Necklace and Four Earrings

Designs for a Necklace and Four Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold swivel ring with carnelian scarab

Gold swivel ring with carnelian scarab

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

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th 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. 213 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. 276854 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 15:39 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.