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 “Jewelry Box” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:15 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.
Jewelry Box

Jewelry Box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gold metal scrollwork jewelry box from Mae's Millinery Shop, by Unidentified

Gold metal scrollwork jewelry box from Mae's Millinery Shop

Unidentified · 1941-1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewelry box

Jewelry box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Box, Jewelry, and Seal Designs, by Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s

Box, Jewelry, and Seal Designs

Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewelry box, by P. Ben

Jewelry box

P. Ben · 1627

Public domainThe Met
Box, Jewelry, and Seal Designs, by Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s

Box, Jewelry, and Seal Designs

Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewelry Box

Jewelry Box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–1981 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Coffre Fort [et] Bijoutière, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Coffre Fort [et] Bijoutière

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by Lucien Falize

Box

Lucien Falize · ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by John Thurston

Box

John Thurston · 1660–85

Public domainThe Met
secretary

secretary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewelry Elements

Jewelry Elements

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
secretary

secretary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Round Box Brooch

Round Box Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 700–900

Public domainThe Met
Cahier de Bÿouteries dans le Gout Modern Comme Boites, Pommes de Cannes, Bagues, Cachets, Boucles d’Oreilles &c. Dessinés et Gravés par Fay, by Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s

Cahier de Bÿouteries dans le Gout Modern Comme Boites, Pommes de Cannes, Bagues, Cachets, Boucles d’Oreilles &c. Dessinés et Gravés par Fay

Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Round Box Brooch

Round Box Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1100

Public domainThe Met
Chiffoniere, Petit Coffre à Bijoux, Encoignure, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Chiffoniere, Petit Coffre à Bijoux, Encoignure

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewelry casket, by Pietro Giusti

Jewelry casket

Pietro Giusti · 1857

Public domainThe Met
Coffre à Bijoux, by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

Coffre à Bijoux

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1774–88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reversible brooch, by Alexis Falize

Reversible brooch

Alexis Falize · ca. 1869

Public domainThe Met
Box Designs, by Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s

Box Designs

Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crescent-Shaped Pendant with Confronted Birds

Crescent-Shaped Pendant with Confronted Birds

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699

Title Page

Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

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. 242 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 139206 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-26 18:15 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.