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 “Inlay fragment, collar design” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 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.
Inlay fragment, collar design

Inlay fragment, collar design

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Collar fragment

Collar fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, net design

Inlay fragment, net design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Collar fragment

Collar fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, feather design

Inlay fragment, feather design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat fragments

Waistcoat fragments

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, feather(?) design

Inlay fragment, feather(?) design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Collar

Collar

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, rosette

Inlay fragment, rosette

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, rekhyt birds

Inlay fragment, rekhyt birds

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay plate, with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay plate, with a floral design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase fragment, conventional floral design

Vase fragment, conventional floral design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with fish design

Fragment of an inlay with fish design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, border pattern of feather design

Inlay fragment, border pattern of feather design

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, ankh and was scepters

Inlay fragment, ankh and was scepters

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with fish design

Fragment of an inlay with fish design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, network pattern with centers

Inlay fragment, network pattern with centers

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with fish design

Fragment of an inlay with fish design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, conventional floral pattern

Inlay fragment, conventional floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with floral design

Fragment of an inlay with floral design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, rows of zigzag lines

Inlay fragment, rows of zigzag lines

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with fish design

Fragment of an inlay with fish design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

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. 76 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. 139041 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 21:06 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.