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 eyes” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:09 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 eyes

Pair of eyes

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
World War I enlisted man's olive drab tunic

World War I enlisted man's olive drab tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 1914-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of an artisan with silver eyes

Bronze statuette of an artisan with silver eyes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Short sleeve purple knit dress, by Unidentified

Short sleeve purple knit dress

Unidentified · 1950s-1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffin of Wah

Coffin of Wah

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Beaded orange velvet evening top and skirt, by Unidentified

Beaded orange velvet evening top and skirt

Unidentified · 1965-1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Candelabra, by Tiffany & Co.

Pair of Candelabra

Tiffany & Co. · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Black silk dress with pink and blue flowers, by Unidentified

Black silk dress with pink and blue flowers

Unidentified · 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of vases

Pair of vases

Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Gold sequined dress with matching hat and purse, by Unidentified

Gold sequined dress with matching hat and purse

Unidentified · 1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated satyr with silvered eyes, by Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Seated satyr with silvered eyes

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · second quarter of the 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · Ming dynasty, 1368–1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Minbar Doors

Pair of Minbar Doors

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–30

Public domainThe Met
Shackles, by Unidentified

Shackles

Unidentified · 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaikuntha Vishnu

Vaikuntha Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)

One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)

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

Public domainThe Met
Leslie Payne’s Aviator Goggles, by Leslie J. Payne

Leslie Payne’s Aviator Goggles

Leslie J. Payne · Mid-20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Ocean View, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Ocean View

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge (buzi)

Rank badge (buzi)

Artist not stated in the record · Ming dynasty 1368–1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Étagère, by Alexander Roux

Étagère

Alexander Roux · ca. 1855

Public domainThe Met
Set of wrought iron leg shackles, by Unidentified

Set of wrought iron leg shackles

Unidentified · before 1863

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. 14591 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2860705 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 12:09 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.