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. 23 shown for “Necklace with Filigree and Beads” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:48 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.
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · second half 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · before 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Necklace with Filigree and Beads

Necklace with Filigree and Beads

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Necklace with amulet

Necklace with amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beads

Beads

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lady with silver basket, by Giuseppe Gori

Lady with silver basket

Giuseppe Gori · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird-Shaped Brooch

Bird-Shaped Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · second half 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Earrings

Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird-Shaped Brooch

Bird-Shaped Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · second half 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Green necklace with sequins from Josephine Baker's performance troupe, by Unidentified

Green necklace with sequins from Josephine Baker's performance troupe

Unidentified · 1920s-1930s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Beaded Necklace with Star, by Ira Blount

Beaded Necklace with Star

Ira Blount · late 20th-early 21st Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 650–725

Public domainThe Met
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beads from a Necklace

Beads from a Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Blue Beaded Necklace, by Ira Blount

Blue Beaded Necklace

Ira Blount · late 20th-early 21st Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · probably 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold necklace with inlaid amber

Gold necklace with inlaid amber

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

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. 358 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. 1536025 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 17:48 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.