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. 18 shown for “Opaque white on opaque blue glass cameo” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:27 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.
Opaque white on opaque blue glass cameo

Opaque white on opaque blue glass cameo

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Cameo pendant, by Unidentified

Cameo pendant

Unidentified · 300-100 B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Opaque blue glass oval engraved gem

Opaque blue glass oval engraved gem

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cameo pendant, by Unidentified

Cameo pendant

Unidentified · 300-100 B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass perfume bottle with opaque white trail

Glass perfume bottle with opaque white trail

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Flask

Flask

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass perfume bottle with opaque white trail

Glass perfume bottle with opaque white trail

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass garland bowl

Glass garland bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cup and saucer

Cup and saucer

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Opaque black glass ring stone with a white band

Opaque black glass ring stone with a white band

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bottle and cap

Bottle and cap

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass cameo fragment

Glass cameo fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–mid-1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Glass cameo fragment

Glass cameo fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–mid-1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Cameo glass fragment

Cameo glass fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Glass cameo fragment

Glass cameo fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Glass cameo cup fragment

Glass cameo cup fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Glass cameo bowl fragment

Glass cameo bowl fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–mid-1st century CE

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. 1316 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. 1070169 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 01:27 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.