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: winged Nemesis” — 54 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 06:45 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: winged Nemesis

Gold ring with carnelian intaglio: winged Nemesis

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

Public domainThe Met
Sharp DR 90 Nemesis, by Nemesis Air Racing Team

Sharp DR 90 Nemesis

Nemesis Air Racing Team · 1991

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of jewelry

Set of jewelry

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

Public domainThe Met
Philippine Liberation Medal awarded to Ck2c George Francis Bland, by Juan Nakpil, Filipino-American, 1899 - 1986

Philippine Liberation Medal awarded to Ck2c George Francis Bland

Juan Nakpil, Filipino-American, 1899 - 1986 · ca. 1945

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

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Seal

Seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carnelian scaraboid

Carnelian scaraboid

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

Public domainThe Met
Border fragment

Border fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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
Interlaced circles

Interlaced circles

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

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
World War I Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimage Medal issued to Mrs. Margaret A. Neal

World War I Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimage Medal issued to Mrs. Margaret A. Neal

Artist not stated in the record · 1930

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
Gold ring purse with clear beads, by Unidentified

Gold ring purse with clear beads

Unidentified · 1960s-1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sardonyx ring stone

Sardonyx ring stone

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

Public domainThe Met
Ring, Cane Handles and Seal Designs, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Ring, Cane Handles and Seal Designs

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

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
Blazer, tie, and belt worn by Ted Corbitt for the 1952 Helsinki XV Olympics

Blazer, tie, and belt worn by Ted Corbitt for the 1952 Helsinki XV Olympics

Artist not stated in the record · 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold finger ring engraved with an image of Hermes

Gold finger ring engraved with an image of Hermes

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lidded incense burner (xianglu) with geometric decoration and narrative scenes

Lidded incense burner (xianglu) with geometric decoration and narrative scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab ring of Sithathoryunet

Scarab ring of Sithathoryunet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1813 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Ring

Ring

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

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

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–30

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. 14 matched · 14 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. 289941 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 06:45 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.