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 “Lover's Eye necklace” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:39 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.
Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja), by Kaikei

Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja)

Kaikei · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Necklace, by Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895

Necklace

Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895 · 1863–96

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lover's Eye necklace

Lover's Eye necklace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840–60

Public domainThe Met
Eye, by Unidentified (British)

Eye

Unidentified (British) · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
String of 10 Eye Beads

String of 10 Eye Beads

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eye, by Unidentified

Eye

Unidentified · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
String of 11 Eye Beads

String of 11 Eye Beads

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace with Sacred Eye of Wedjat or Horas, by Unidentified

Necklace with Sacred Eye of Wedjat or Horas

Unidentified · 600-300 B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
String of 27 Eye Beads

String of 27 Eye Beads

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eye of a Lady, by Unidentified (European)

Eye of a Lady

Unidentified (European) · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
String of 21 Eye Beads

String of 21 Eye Beads

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eye Miniature on an Elliptical Ivory Box, by Unidentified

Eye Miniature on an Elliptical Ivory Box

Unidentified · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
String of 12 Eye Beads

String of 12 Eye Beads

Artist not stated in the record · 600–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eye of a Lady, by Unidentified (European)

Eye of a Lady

Unidentified (European) · ca. 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
String of 12 Eye Beads

String of 12 Eye Beads

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eye of a Gentleman, by Unidentified (European)

Eye of a Gentleman

Unidentified (European) · ca. 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lover’s Eye Watch Fob

Lover’s Eye Watch Fob

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Public domainThe Met
Eye of a Lady, by Unidentified (European)

Eye of a Lady

Unidentified (European) · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lover's Eye locket

Lover's Eye locket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lover's Eye Bracelet

Lover's Eye Bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Public domainThe Met
Gracilariopsis andersonii (Grunow) E.Y. Dawson

Gracilariopsis andersonii (Grunow) E.Y. Dawson

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lover's Eye ring

Lover's Eye ring

Artist not stated in the record · 1794

Public domainThe Met
"Mermaid and Her Lover" Engine Panel Painting, by Woodside, John Archibald

"Mermaid and Her Lover" Engine Panel Painting

Woodside, John Archibald · ca 1840

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. 261 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. 15809 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 05:39 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.