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 “Hair ring” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:36 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.
Hair ring

Hair ring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
John Frederick Kensett, by Charles DeForest Fredricks, 11 Dec 1823 - 25 May 1894

John Frederick Kensett

Charles DeForest Fredricks, 11 Dec 1823 - 25 May 1894 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hair ring

Hair ring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
John Cleves Short, by Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843

John Cleves Short

Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hair ring

Hair ring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Bogardus, by Abraham Bogardus, 29 Nov 1822 - 22 Mar 1908

Abraham Bogardus

Abraham Bogardus, 29 Nov 1822 - 22 Mar 1908 · c. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chuspa (coca bag), by Moche artist(s)

Chuspa (coca bag)

Moche artist(s) · 650-850 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bret Harte, by Jeremiah Gurney, 12 Oct 1812 - 21 Apr 1895

Bret Harte

Jeremiah Gurney, 12 Oct 1812 - 21 Apr 1895 · c. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring

Ring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Charles Augustus May, by Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871

Charles Augustus May

Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring

Ring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Gustav Cramer and George William Harris, by Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977

Gustav Cramer and George William Harris

Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · c. 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass finger ring

Glass finger ring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Winslow Homer (with six other artists, including E. L. Henry and Alfred C. Howland), by Unidentified Artist

Winslow Homer (with six other artists, including E. L. Henry and Alfred C. Howland)

Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Steatite scaraboid seal set in a gold swivel ring

Steatite scaraboid seal set in a gold swivel ring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Admiral George Dewey, by Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977

Admiral George Dewey

Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · c. 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hair-ring

Hair-ring

Artist not stated in the record · 1st millennium BCE (?)

Public domainThe Met
John George Brown, by Gilbert Gaul, 1855 - 1919

John George Brown

Gilbert Gaul, 1855 - 1919 · 1907

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

Carnelian seal set in a gold ring

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

Public domainThe Met
George H. Gilbert

George H. Gilbert

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wig rings of Sithathoryunet, on a modern wig

Wig rings of Sithathoryunet, on a modern wig

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

Public domainThe Met
Daniel Huntington

Daniel Huntington

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch

Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Henry B. Anthony

Henry B. Anthony

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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. 221 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 26110 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 16:36 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.