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 “Rank Badge with Leopard on Rock with Waves” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:23 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.
Rank Badge with Leopard on Rock with Waves

Rank Badge with Leopard on Rock with Waves

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank Badge with Leopard

Rank Badge with Leopard

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank badge with leopard

Rank badge with leopard

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank Badge with Peacock

Rank Badge with Peacock

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank Badge with Egret

Rank Badge with Egret

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank Badge with Lion

Rank Badge with Lion

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank Badge with Wild Goose

Rank Badge with Wild Goose

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank Badge with Waves and Rocks

Rank Badge with Waves and Rocks

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · before 1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank Badge with Leopard, Wave and Sun Motifs

Rank Badge with Leopard, Wave and Sun Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank Badge with Egret

Rank Badge with Egret

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank badge with a pair of tiger-leopards

Rank badge with a pair of tiger-leopards

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

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

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. 46 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. 1146615 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-02 09:23 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.