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. 24 shown for “Gold ring with carnelian intaglio: Eros with flaming torch” — 57 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 09:02 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 ring with carnelian intaglio: Eros with flaming torch

Gold ring with carnelian intaglio: Eros with flaming torch

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Title Page, "Occupations of Women and Their Compensation", by Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961

Design for Title Page, "Occupations of Women and Their Compensation"

Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961 · ca. 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of jewelry

Set of jewelry

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

Public domainThe Met
Spearfishing at Night, Beirut, Syria (Lebanon), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Spearfishing at Night, Beirut, Syria (Lebanon)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1868

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

Gold ring with a carnelian intaglio

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Furniture Mount

Furniture Mount

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carnelian oval set in a gold ring

Carnelian oval set in a gold ring

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold ring with carnelian intaglio portrait of Tiberius

Gold ring with carnelian intaglio portrait of Tiberius

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14–37 CE

Public domainThe Met
Chimney Piece Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Chimney Piece Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carnelian ring stone

Carnelian ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Seal

Seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carnelian ring stone

Carnelian ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Card case

Card case

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold ring with intaglio of seated woman and flying Eros

Gold ring with intaglio of seated woman and flying Eros

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Trophy Designs, by Jacques Ignace de Latouche, French, 1694 – 1781

Two Trophy Designs

Jacques Ignace de Latouche, French, 1694 – 1781 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold ring with a carnelian or glass intaglio

Gold ring with a carnelian or glass intaglio

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Berthelot, French, active late 18th century

Title Page

Berthelot, French, active late 18th century · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Onyx ring stone

Onyx ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fighting serpents with fire, by Karel van Mallery, Flemish, 1571 – 1635

Fighting serpents with fire

Karel van Mallery, Flemish, 1571 – 1635 · ca. 1595

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold ring with carnelian intaglio: winged Nemesis

Gold ring with carnelian intaglio: winged Nemesis

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–early 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Le Feu, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Le Feu

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1758–64

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold box ring surmounted by a scarab

Gold box ring surmounted by a scarab

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–310 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Candelabra with Two Arms, Candle Snuffer, and Candle Extinguisher

Candelabra with Two Arms, Candle Snuffer, and Candle Extinguisher

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 1 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. 274431 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-08-31 09:02 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.