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. 15 shown for “Inlaid Rosette” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:14 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.
Inlaid Rosette

Inlaid Rosette

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pier tables, by William Moore, Irish, d. 1814

Pier tables

William Moore, Irish, d. 1814 · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rosette Brooch

Rosette Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 550–600

Public domainThe Met
Josh White Model Guitar and case owned by Josh White

Josh White Model Guitar and case owned by Josh White

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze object in the shape of a horn

Bronze object in the shape of a horn

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Waste Not Want Not, by A.W.N. Pugin, English, 1812–1852

Waste Not Want Not

A.W.N. Pugin, English, 1812–1852 · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astrolabe of ‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari, by ‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari

Astrolabe of ‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari

‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari · dated 690 AH/1291 CE

Public domainThe Met
Brazier of Rasulid Sultan al-Malik al-Muzaffar Shams al-Din Yusuf ibn 'Umar

Brazier of Rasulid Sultan al-Malik al-Muzaffar Shams al-Din Yusuf ibn 'Umar

Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Tray Made for the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'ud ibn Yusuf

Tray Made for the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'ud ibn Yusuf

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Spindle Whorl

Spindle Whorl

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Inlaid Floral Ornament -- see 26.8.117a

Inlaid Floral Ornament -- see 26.8.117a

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

Public domainThe Met
Mount for Spear Shaft

Mount for Spear Shaft

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400

Public domainThe Met
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · 19th or first decade of 20th century (with earlier parts)

Public domainThe Met
Mount for Spear Shaft

Mount for Spear Shaft

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400

Public domainThe Met
Belt Buckle

Belt Buckle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400

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. 73 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. 4747 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:14 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.