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. 20 shown for “Jagging Wheel” — 49 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:00 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.
Jagging Wheel

Jagging Wheel

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–75

Public domainThe Met
Scrimshaw Ivory Jagging Wheel

Scrimshaw Ivory Jagging Wheel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jagging Wheel

Jagging Wheel

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1900

Public domainThe Met
Pastry jagger

Pastry jagger

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jagging Wheel

Jagging Wheel

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1900

Public domainThe Met
Aconitum delphinifolium DC.

Aconitum delphinifolium DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jagging Wheel

Jagging Wheel

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

Public domainThe Met
Papaver mcconellii Hultén

Papaver mcconellii Hultén

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saxifraga caespitosa L.

Saxifraga caespitosa L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bottle

Glass bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Saxifraga caespitosa L.

Saxifraga caespitosa L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with mythological scene, by Metropolitan Painter

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Lloydia serotina (L.) Salisb. ex Rchb.

Lloydia serotina (L.) Salisb. ex Rchb.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Jag Deo & Warrangur, Hill Forts in the Barramah'l, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Jag Deo & Warrangur, Hill Forts in the Barramah'l, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta saucer-shaped lamp

Terracotta saucer-shaped lamp

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mt. Lebanon between Yahfoufa and Baalbek, Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mt. Lebanon between Yahfoufa and Baalbek, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 6, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peperomia rotundifolia (L.) Kunth

Peperomia rotundifolia (L.) Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Dec 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Needles, by Thomas Moran, American, b. Britain, 1837–1926

The Needles

Thomas Moran, American, b. Britain, 1837–1926 · June 2, 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–90

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3569 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-03 18:00 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.