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 “Inrō with Geometric Pattern” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:26 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.
Inrō with Geometric Pattern

Inrō with Geometric Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pattern No. 375 Teaspoon with Geometric Enamel Handle, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Pattern No. 375 Teaspoon with Geometric Enamel Handle

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze horse

Bronze horse

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Geometric Pattern

Geometric Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold sanguisuga-type fibula (safety pin) with patterns in granulation

Gold sanguisuga-type fibula (safety pin) with patterns in granulation

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wedding knife

Wedding knife

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration

Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration

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

Public domainThe Met
Rangoon Cup and Saucer, by Francis J. Emery, active ca. 1878 – 1893

Rangoon Cup and Saucer

Francis J. Emery, active ca. 1878 – 1893 · ca. 1878–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coca bag

Coca bag

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 1200

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Brown and blue fabric panel with geometric pattern, by Unidentified

Brown and blue fabric panel with geometric pattern

Unidentified · mid to late 20th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Melton, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Melton

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1875–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Kamben geringsing (ceremonial cloth)

Kamben geringsing (ceremonial cloth)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sample book

Sample book

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Light blue geometric patterned hat with veil, by Unidentified

Light blue geometric patterned hat with veil

Unidentified · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Geometric Pattern

Geometric Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Patola

Patola

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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. 1286 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. 254597 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 21:26 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.