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 a Pair of Cranes” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:34 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 a Pair of Cranes

Rank Badge with a Pair of Cranes

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge (buzi)

Rank badge (buzi)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cranes, by Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪

Cranes

Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪 · late 1780s

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · before 1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cranes, by Soga Shōhaku

Cranes

Soga Shōhaku · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a rank badge

Fragment of a rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–17th century

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

Rank badge

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of bronze cista (toiletries box) feet with panthers attacking cranes

Pair of bronze cista (toiletries box) feet with panthers attacking cranes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilgrim's badge

Pilgrim's badge

Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Dagger-Axes (Ge)

Pair of Dagger-Axes (Ge)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank Badge

Rank Badge

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons

Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diadem with a Pair of Gazelle Heads

Diadem with a Pair of Gazelle Heads

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th 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. 336 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. 3880968 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 11:34 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.