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 “Leather box” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:56 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.
Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories, by James Purdey the Elder

Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories

James Purdey the Elder · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Tête-à-Tête Tea Service with Leather Box, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Tête-à-Tête Tea Service with Leather Box

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game table, by David Roentgen

Game table

David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Public domainThe Met
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1701–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nécessaire (one of a pair), by John Barbot

Nécessaire (one of a pair)

John Barbot · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Boxing headgear worn by Muhammad Ali, by Everlast Worldwide, Inc., founded 1910

Boxing headgear worn by Muhammad Ali

Everlast Worldwide, Inc., founded 1910 · ca. 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories, by Durs Egg

Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories

Durs Egg · ca. 1805–10; converted after 1818

Public domainThe Met
Tweeter box speakers used as part of a DJ setup

Tweeter box speakers used as part of a DJ setup

Artist not stated in the record · 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature collector's cabinet, by Bernard Salomon

Miniature collector's cabinet

Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Speed bag gloves used by Muhammad Ali

Speed bag gloves used by Muhammad Ali

Artist not stated in the record · 1970-1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triptych with the Mandylion, by The Kremlin Armory Workshops, Moscow

Triptych with the Mandylion

The Kremlin Armory Workshops, Moscow · 1637

Public domainThe Met
Le Boxeur JACK JOHNSON

Le Boxeur JACK JOHNSON

Artist not stated in the record · 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor (Gusoku) with Box, by Neo Masanobu 根尾正信

Armor (Gusoku) with Box

Neo Masanobu 根尾正信 · 19th century; helmet bowl, early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ambrotype portrait of Creed Miller with star-shaped military identification pin, by Unidentified

Ambrotype portrait of Creed Miller with star-shaped military identification pin

Unidentified · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leather box

Leather box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Hat Box Used by Ethel L. Payne

Hat Box Used by Ethel L. Payne

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smith and Wesson .44 Double-Action Revolver for George Jay Gould (1864–1923), serial no. 23402, with Case and Cleaning Brush, by Smith & Wesson

Smith and Wesson .44 Double-Action Revolver for George Jay Gould (1864–1923), serial no. 23402, with Case and Cleaning Brush

Smith & Wesson · 1888–89

Public domainThe Met
Cased Pair of Percussion Pistols with Accessories, by Louis-Julien Gastinne-Renette

Cased Pair of Percussion Pistols with Accessories

Louis-Julien Gastinne-Renette · dated 1856

Public domainThe Met
Breech-Loading Rimfire Cartridge Pistol with Case and Accessories, by Louis Nicolas Auguste Flobert

Breech-Loading Rimfire Cartridge Pistol with Case and Accessories

Louis Nicolas Auguste Flobert · ca. 1855

Public domainThe Met
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

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. 238 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 123045 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 2026-08-29 07:56 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.