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 with row of rosettes” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:34 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 with row of rosettes

Inlay fragment with row of rosettes

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay with row of rosettes

Inlay with row of rosettes

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
inlay with row of rosettes

inlay with row of rosettes

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay, row of rosettes

Inlay, row of rosettes

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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

Inlay, rosette strip

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays

Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · late 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
Sarong fragment

Sarong fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay, row of stepped forms, row of rosettes, unclear pattern

Inlay, row of stepped forms, row of rosettes, unclear pattern

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

Public domainThe Met
Metal frames for Purses, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Metal frames for Purses

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, row of stars

Inlay fragment, row of stars

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1250–74

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava

The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies

Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Nine Bands for Bases

Designs for Nine Bands for Bases

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay, rosette

Inlay, rosette

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

Public domainThe Met
Eight Designs for Decorated Mouldings, by C. C., French, active 19th c.

Eight Designs for Decorated Mouldings

C. C., French, active 19th c. · 1811

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. 938 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. 2905333 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 15:34 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.