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 “Ostracon inscribed with identity marks” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:12 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.
Ostracon inscribed with identity marks

Ostracon inscribed with identity marks

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1137–1084 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon inscribed with identity marks

Ostracon inscribed with identity marks

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1137–1084 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coat-of-Arms

Coat-of-Arms

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon inscribed with identity marks and the name of female family member

Ostracon inscribed with identity marks and the name of female family member

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1154 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Native American Motifs, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Native American Motifs

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon inscribed with list of identity marks

Ostracon inscribed with list of identity marks

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

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Studies after Paintings in Ferrara, Rome, Bologna, Mantua after Artists Tibaldi, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto and Polidoro; Verso: Bird Skeleton and Horse's Head, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketchbook Page: Studies after Paintings in Ferrara, Rome, Bologna, Mantua after Artists Tibaldi, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto and Polidoro; Verso: Bird Skeleton and Horse's Head

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon with Workmen's Identity Marks

Ostracon with Workmen's Identity Marks

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

Public domainThe Met
Four Studies of Soldiers' Heads, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Four Studies of Soldiers' Heads

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1863–64

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hieroglyph ostracon

Hieroglyph ostracon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement for "Ludens Menthol Cough Drops", by Whitehead & Hoag Company

Advertisement for "Ludens Menthol Cough Drops"

Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hieratic Ostracon

Hieratic Ostracon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement for "Tetley's Teas"

Advertisement for "Tetley's Teas"

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement for "England's Glory Matches, S.J. Moreland & Sons", by Whitehead & Hoag Company

Advertisement for "England's Glory Matches, S.J. Moreland & Sons"

Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with scenes from the New Testament (one of a pair), by Franz Fischer

Cup with scenes from the New Testament (one of a pair)

Franz Fischer · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Bollinger Champagne Crate, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Bollinger Champagne Crate

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Clay Figure (Dogū)

Head of a Clay Figure (Dogū)

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
British Footbal Player, inscribed "Saved"

British Footbal Player, inscribed "Saved"

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Roundsman chest badge

Roundsman chest badge

Artist not stated in the record · early 1880s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Bouquet of Flowers, by Clara Peeters

A Bouquet of Flowers

Clara Peeters · ca. 1612

Public domainThe Met
Title page: "Bearing the Cross", by S. A. Grant

Title page: "Bearing the Cross"

S. A. Grant · ca. 1861

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. 114 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. 292138 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-27 06:12 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.