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 “Pair of Miquelet Pistols” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 05:46 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.
Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories, by James Purdey the Elder

Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories

James Purdey the Elder · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Aguirre 1804 Miquelet Lock Pistol

Aguirre 1804 Miquelet Lock Pistol

Artist not stated in the record · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories, by Nicolas Noël Boutet

Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories

Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Spanish Miquelet Lock Pistol

Spanish Miquelet Lock Pistol

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Miquelet Pistols

Pair of Miquelet Pistols

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1687

Public domainThe Met
Miquelet Lock Pistol

Miquelet Lock Pistol

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories, by Durs Egg

Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories

Durs Egg · ca. 1805–10; converted after 1818

Public domainThe Met
Spanish Miquelet Lock Pistol

Spanish Miquelet Lock Pistol

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Miquelet Pistols, by Francisco Pintan

Pair of Miquelet Pistols

Francisco Pintan · dated 1757

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Earthenware Handle (One of a Pair)

Knife with Earthenware Handle (One of a Pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Empress Catherine the Great (1729–1796), by Johan Adolph Grecke

Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Empress Catherine the Great (1729–1796)

Johan Adolph Grecke · 1786

Public domainThe Met
North African Miquelet Jezail (Musket)

North African Miquelet Jezail (Musket)

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Pellet-Lock Pistols with Case with Accessories, by Charles Moore

Pair of Pellet-Lock Pistols with Case with Accessories

Charles Moore · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Porcelain Handle (One of a Pair), by Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1725 - ca. 1789

Knife with Porcelain Handle (One of a Pair)

Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1725 - ca. 1789 · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cased Pair of Flintlock Pistols with Accessories, by François Pirmet

Cased Pair of Flintlock Pistols with Accessories

François Pirmet · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Dueling Pistol presented to Andrew Jackson

Dueling Pistol presented to Andrew Jackson

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cased Pair of Percussion Pistols with Accessories, by Louis-Julien Gastinne-Renette

Cased Pair of Percussion Pistols with Accessories

Louis-Julien Gastinne-Renette · dated 1856

Public domainThe Met
Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406, by Samuel Colt

Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406

Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Porcelain Handle (One of a Pair), by Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1725 - ca. 1789

Knife with Porcelain Handle (One of a Pair)

Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1725 - ca. 1789 · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Flintlock Pistols, by Samuel Brunn

Pair of Flintlock Pistols

Samuel Brunn · hallmarked for 1800–1801

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1755–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Flintlock Duelling Pistols, by Simeon North

Pair of Flintlock Duelling Pistols

Simeon North · ca. 1815–20

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Fork)

Knife with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Fork)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1755–1780

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. 115 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. 2859888 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 2026-09-01 05:46 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.