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 “Mold for a Disk Ornament” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 11:52 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.
Mold for a Disk Ornament

Mold for a Disk Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two vases

Two vases

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mold for a Disk Ornament

Mold for a Disk Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Acanthus Leaf Moldings and Ornament, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Designs for Acanthus Leaf Moldings and Ornament

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental disk, by Chimú artist(s)

Ornamental disk

Chimú artist(s) · 1100–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Porte Cochere avec Entresol, necessaire aux Sculpteurs et Menuisiers, by Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794

Porte Cochere avec Entresol, necessaire aux Sculpteurs et Menuisiers

Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794 · ca. 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch with Cameo

Disk Brooch with Cameo

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600 (mount); 100–300 (cameo)

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Alcove with a Buffet, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for an Alcove with a Buffet

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk

Disk

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company, by Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s

Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company

Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s · ca. 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mold for a Sun Disk Flanked by Uraeus Cobras

Mold for a Sun Disk Flanked by Uraeus Cobras

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frame or Molding, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Frame or Molding

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frame or Molding, by Claude Niquet, French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831

Design for a Frame or Molding

Claude Niquet, French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral Disk (Patena)

Pectoral Disk (Patena)

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frame or Molding, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Frame or Molding

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant

Gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frame or Molding, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Frame or Molding

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serpentine mold for casting bead pendants

Serpentine mold for casting bead pendants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornamental Details, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Designs for Ornamental Details

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

Public domainThe Met
Design for Architectural Moldings

Design for Architectural Moldings

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk from a Reel

Disk from a Reel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frame, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Frame

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

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. 477 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. 2084693 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-06 11:52 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.