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. 22 shown for “Kunda (Double Bell)” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:33 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.
Kunda (Double Bell)

Kunda (Double Bell)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bell and Belfry

Design for a Bell and Belfry

Artist not stated in the record · 1739

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kunda

Kunda

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir.

Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kunda (bell), by Mayumba people

Kunda (bell)

Mayumba people · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Combretum hypopilinum Diels

Combretum hypopilinum Diels

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56), by Peter Peck

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)

Peter Peck · ca. 1540–45

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of Susan Bell

Cabinet card of Susan Bell

Artist not stated in the record · February-March 5, 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Horn in F / B-flat, by Eduard Kruspe

Double Horn in F / B-flat

Eduard Kruspe · 1904–19

Public domainThe Met
Bombax costatum Pellegr. & Vuillet

Bombax costatum Pellegr. & Vuillet

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Bell

Double Bell

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Medicago sativa L.

Medicago sativa L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monastery Bell

Monastery Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Iceberg near Belle Isle, Canada, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Iceberg near Belle Isle, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 15, 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carnelian bell-shaped stamp seal

Carnelian bell-shaped stamp seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bombax costatum Pellegr. & Vuillet

Bombax costatum Pellegr. & Vuillet

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jan 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bell (Ekure)

Bell (Ekure)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th–mid 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Tassel

Tassel

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oboe, by Johann Heinrich Grenser

Oboe

Johann Heinrich Grenser · ca. 1806–13

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card portrait of John R. Bell

Cabinet card portrait of John R. Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhaita (Al ghaita)

Rhaita (Al ghaita)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Oboe in C, by Jacob Denner

Oboe in C

Jacob Denner · before 1735

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. 253 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 20947 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:33 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.