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 seated woman and flying Eros” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 11:33 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 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
Tintype of a seated young woman

Tintype of a seated young woman

Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold ring

Gold ring

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd quarter of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
White My Flax, Red My Ring, Gold the Heart of My Betrothed, by Henry Patrick Raleigh, American, 1880–1944

White My Flax, Red My Ring, Gold the Heart of My Betrothed

Henry Patrick Raleigh, American, 1880–1944 · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nécessaire with watch

Nécessaire with watch

Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Ambrotype of three women in dotted calico dresses

Ambrotype of three women in dotted calico dresses

Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1870

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

Gold ring with onyx intaglio

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

Public domainThe Met
Ambrotype of a woman seated with a hat in her lap, by Unidentified

Ambrotype of a woman seated with a hat in her lap

Unidentified · mid-19th century

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
Ambrotype of an unidentified young woman

Ambrotype of an unidentified young woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold ring with intaglio of a naked woman

Gold ring with intaglio of a naked woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Ambrotype of Ann Hurst Copeland in an embossed leather case

Ambrotype of Ann Hurst Copeland in an embossed leather case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Jewel Rivers, by Sakai Ōho

Six Jewel Rivers

Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Public domainThe Met
A Couple Seated on a Bed

A Couple Seated on a Bed

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circular plaster relief

Circular plaster relief

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ambrotype of a young woman holding a white baby

Ambrotype of a young woman holding a white baby

Artist not stated in the record · 1855-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil jar), by Bowdoin Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil jar)

Bowdoin Painter · ca. 480–470 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a seated man, by Unidentified

Tintype of a seated man

Unidentified · 1880s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a man, by Unidentified

Tintype of a man

Unidentified · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekanis (dish), by V. and A. Group

Terracotta lekanis (dish)

V. and A. Group · ca. 365–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796

Button

Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th 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
Tintype of a woman wearing a striped dress with flowers in her hair

Tintype of a woman wearing a striped dress with flowers in her hair

Artist not stated in the record · 1855-1860s

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. 28 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3211479 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 11:33 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.