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 intaglio of Kassandra” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 16:15 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 intaglio of Kassandra

Gold ring with intaglio of Kassandra

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–380 BCE

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
Finger ring with ancient intaglio

Finger ring with ancient intaglio

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 7th 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
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Ring

Ring

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of jewelry

Set of jewelry

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

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
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869), by Samuel Jackson

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)

Samuel Jackson · 1854–55

Public domainThe Met
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant Brooch with Cameo of Enthroned Virgin and Child and Christ Pantokrator

Pendant Brooch with Cameo of Enthroned Virgin and Child and Christ Pantokrator

Artist not stated in the record · late 1000s–1100s (cameo); 1100s–1300s (mount)

Public domainThe Met
Earring

Earring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring

Ring

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Ring owned by Ginger Smock

Ring owned by Ginger Smock

Artist not stated in the record · late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring

Ring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring

Ring

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring

Ring

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring

Ring

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

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring

Ring

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Miser's purse

Miser's 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. 1036 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. 2896250 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 16:15 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.