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. 21 shown for “Jeweled Bracelet (one of pair)” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:14 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.
Jeweled Bracelet (one of pair)

Jeweled Bracelet (one of pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 500–700

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jewel Box with Earrings, a Pearl Necklace, and a Bracelet

Design for a Jewel Box with Earrings, a Pearl Necklace, and a Bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jeweled Bracelet (one of pair)

Jeweled Bracelet (one of pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 500–700

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Bracelets

Pair of Bracelets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Bracelets

Pair of Bracelets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bracelet (one of a pair)

Bracelet (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bracelet (one of a pair)

Bracelet (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)

One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)

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

Public domainThe Met
Parure (Pair of bracelets, pair of earrings, locket)

Parure (Pair of bracelets, pair of earrings, locket)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bracelet

Glass bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd half of 6th century BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Cameo brooch and bracelet

Cameo brooch and bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Jeweled Anklets (Paijeb)

Pair of Jeweled Anklets (Paijeb)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1900

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bracelet

Bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock, by James Cox

Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock

James Cox · 1766

Public domainThe Met
Bracelet, by George W. Shiebler & Co.

Bracelet

George W. Shiebler & Co. · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Set of jewelry

Set of jewelry

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

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. 359 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3014314 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:14 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.