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. 16 shown for “Hunting Sword with Scabbard, Knife, and Fork” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:14 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.
Hunting Sword with Scabbard, Knife, and Fork

Hunting Sword with Scabbard, Knife, and Fork

Artist not stated in the record · blade dated 1656

Public domainThe Met
Knife

Knife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hunting Sword with Scabbard, by Joseph Deutschmann

Hunting Sword with Scabbard

Joseph Deutschmann · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Chased Bronze Scabbard with Knife, Fork and Dagger, by Unidentified

Chased Bronze Scabbard with Knife, Fork and Dagger

Unidentified · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hunting Sword, by Emanuel Pioté

Hunting Sword

Emanuel Pioté · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Wakizashi Sword and Scabbard

Wakizashi Sword and Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Congressional Presentation Sword with Scabbard of Colonel Marinus Willett (1740–1830), by C. Liger

Congressional Presentation Sword with Scabbard of Colonel Marinus Willett (1740–1830)

C. Liger · hallmarked for 1785–86

Public domainThe Met
George Washington's Battle Sword and Scabbard, by Bailey, John

George Washington's Battle Sword and Scabbard

Bailey, John · ca 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blades and Mountings for a Pair of Swords (Daishō), by Sukemitsu of Bizen

Blades and Mountings for a Pair of Swords (Daishō)

Sukemitsu of Bizen · sword (katana) blade, dated 1440; short sword (wakizashi) blade, 15th century; mountings, late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Dagger with Scabbard, by Wolf Paller

Dagger with Scabbard

Wolf Paller · ca. 1575

Public domainThe Met
Dagger with Sheath

Dagger with Sheath

Artist not stated in the record · blade, mid-16th century; hilt and scabbard, probably mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Hunting Sword with Scabbard

Hunting Sword with Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Hunting Sword with Scabbard

Hunting Sword with Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Hunting Sword and Scabbard

Hunting Sword and Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · hilt, ca. 1700; blade, ca. 1700–1725

Public domainThe Met
Hunting Sword of Prince Camillo Borghese (1775–1832), by François Pirmet

Hunting Sword of Prince Camillo Borghese (1775–1832)

François Pirmet · 1809–13

Public domainThe Met
Set of hunting implements (Trousse), by Jakob Watzky

Set of hunting implements (Trousse)

Jakob Watzky · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
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. 731 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. 1550677 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:14 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.