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. 23 shown for “Harness Ornament in the Shape of Gazelle” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:38 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.
Harness Ornament in the Shape of Gazelle

Harness Ornament in the Shape of Gazelle

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dress panel

Dress panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harness Ornament in the Shape of Gazelle

Harness Ornament in the Shape of Gazelle

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish

Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament, by Maya artist(s)

Ornament

Maya artist(s) · 400–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament, by Maya artist(s)

Ornament

Maya artist(s) · 3rd–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt plaque in the shape of a kneeling horse

Belt plaque in the shape of a kneeling horse

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch or Hair Ornament in Shape of Feather

Design for Brooch or Hair Ornament in Shape of Feather

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harness Ornament

Harness Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Layla and Majnun

Layla and Majnun

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Weight of 3 Deben in the Shape of a Gazelle

Weight of 3 Deben in the Shape of a Gazelle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Dress panel

Dress panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diadem with a Pair of Gazelle Heads

Diadem with a Pair of Gazelle Heads

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
"Title Plate," Plate 1 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs", by Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650

"Title Plate," Plate 1 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"

Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Collector of Prints, by Edgar Degas

The Collector of Prints

Edgar Degas · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Ornamented Chimneypiece Design, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Ornamented Chimneypiece Design

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

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. 2812 matched · 24 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. 7484507 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-03 19:38 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.