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 “Pair of earflares with condors” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 02:43 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.
Earflares, by Olmec artist(s)

Earflares

Olmec artist(s) · 900 – 400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Model, Static, Curtiss T-32 Condor, American Airlines

Model, Static, Curtiss T-32 Condor, American Airlines

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of earflares with condors

Pair of earflares with condors

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Matayba camptoneura Radlk.

Matayba camptoneura Radlk.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ear ornament with winged runner, by Moche artist(s)

Ear ornament with winged runner

Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Brown Birds on Bouquet with Tulip, Rose, and Snapdragons, with Butterflies

Pair of Brown Birds on Bouquet with Tulip, Rose, and Snapdragons, with Butterflies

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ear ornament with winged runner, by Moche artist(s)

Ear ornament with winged runner

Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of stockings

Pair of stockings

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of earflare frontals, by Maya artist(s)

Pair of earflare frontals

Maya artist(s) · 200–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
A Pair of Scissors with Handles Formed by Half-figures of Women with Rinceaux as Legs

A Pair of Scissors with Handles Formed by Half-figures of Women with Rinceaux as Legs

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of carved ornaments with the Maize God, by Maya artist(s)

Pair of carved ornaments with the Maize God

Maya artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Birds on Branch with Roses and Butterflies

Pair of Birds on Branch with Roses and Butterflies

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare with condor

Earflare with condor

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Brown Birds on Rose Stem with Butterfly and Spider

Pair of Brown Birds on Rose Stem with Butterfly and Spider

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare with Condor

Earflare with Condor

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Brown Birds with Blossoms, Berries, and a Butterfly

Pair of Brown Birds with Blossoms, Berries, and a Butterfly

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare with ritual procession, by Chimú artist(s)

Earflare with ritual procession

Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of suspenders

Pair of suspenders

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare with ritual procession, by Chimú artist(s)

Earflare with ritual procession

Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Cuff Studs

Pair of Cuff Studs

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare with spider, by Moche artist(s)

Earflare with spider

Moche artist(s) · 200–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Salad Serving Fork with Pentagonal Terminal, by Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965

Salad Serving Fork with Pentagonal Terminal

Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965 · 1910–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare, by Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

Earflare

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament

Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

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. 37 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. 2895299 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-09 02:43 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.