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 element in the form of a djed pillar” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 03:40 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 element in the form of a djed pillar

Jewelry element in the form of a djed pillar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1805 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken column

Wire frame, broken column

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hooded wall clock with calendar, by Ahasuerus I Fromanteel

Hooded wall clock with calendar

Ahasuerus I Fromanteel · ca. 1660–65

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken column

Wire frame, broken column

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ganymede jewelry

Ganymede jewelry

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken column, small

Wire frame, broken column, small

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Finial in the Form of a Parrot

Finial in the Form of a Parrot

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken column, large

Wire frame, broken column, large

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewelry Elements

Jewelry Elements

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

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken column

Wire frame, broken column

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Djed pillar

Djed pillar

Artist not stated in the record · 525–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken column

Wire frame, broken column

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Djed pillar

Djed pillar

Artist not stated in the record · 525–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, broken column base

Wire frame, broken column base

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Djed pillar

Djed pillar

Artist not stated in the record · 525–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dress

Dress

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Djed Pillar Amulet

Djed Pillar Amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pillar strip, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Pillar strip

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Djed Pillar Amulet

Djed Pillar Amulet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pillar strip, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Pillar strip

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bracelet

Design for a Bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Djed pillar Amulet

Djed pillar Amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tables, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Tables

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

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. 3883 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. 7484477 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 03:40 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.