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 bracelets with rock crystal hoops and gold rams' heads” — 53 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:22 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 bracelets with rock crystal hoops and gold rams' heads

Pair of bracelets with rock crystal hoops and gold rams' heads

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ganymede jewelry

Ganymede jewelry

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Pierre Vernede

Watch

Pierre Vernede · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of jewelry

Set of jewelry

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spoon (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Jean Écosse

Spoon (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Jean Écosse · 1728–30

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

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
Earrings, bracelet and brooch

Earrings, bracelet and brooch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Bracelets, by John Carlin

Pair of Bracelets

John Carlin · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Cameo brooch and bracelet

Cameo brooch and bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress

Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap

Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap

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

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bracelet

Bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Earrings, bracelet and brooch

Earrings, bracelet and brooch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

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

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Parure (Pair of bracelets, pair of earrings, locket)

Parure (Pair of bracelets, pair of earrings, locket)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

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. 13 matched · 13 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. 3187659 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-26 18:22 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.