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. 20 shown for “Pectoral Disk (Patena)” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:31 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.
Pectoral Disk (Patena)

Pectoral Disk (Patena)

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Synarthrophyton patena

Synarthrophyton patena

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral Disk (Patena)

Pectoral Disk (Patena)

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Synarthrophyton patena

Synarthrophyton patena

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral Disk (Patena)

Pectoral Disk (Patena)

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Synarthrophyton patena

Synarthrophyton patena

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral Disk

Pectoral Disk

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Synarthrophyton patena

Synarthrophyton patena

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II

Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1878 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Synarthrophyton patena

Synarthrophyton patena

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Pectoral

Funerary Pectoral

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Synarthrophyton patena

Synarthrophyton patena

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral with Coins and Pseudo-Medallion

Pectoral with Coins and Pseudo-Medallion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 539–50

Public domainThe Met
Synarthrophyton patena

Synarthrophyton patena

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Sep 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral Disk

Pectoral Disk

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
ELIX PECTORAL WED

ELIX PECTORAL WED

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers

Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers

Artist not stated in the record · 664–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pectoral depicting Isis nursing infant Horus in the marsh surrounded by protective genii

Pectoral depicting Isis nursing infant Horus in the marsh surrounded by protective genii

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hammered Gold Patena

Hammered Gold Patena

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Pectoral Disk

Pectoral Disk

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 34 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. 4148 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 13:31 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.