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. 12 shown for “Relief of a woman with a hairpin - see 26.3.353-5” — 40 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:28 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Black hairpin used as a self-defense weapon during protest marches, by Unidentified

Black hairpin used as a self-defense weapon during protest marches

Unidentified · ca. 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue hairpin used as a self-defense weapon during protest marches, by Unidentified

Blue hairpin used as a self-defense weapon during protest marches

Unidentified · ca. 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826), by Camillo Gajani, Italian

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)

Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Femme dressée sur un piédestal orné de bas-reliefs (Woman Standing on a Pedestal Decorated with Bas-Reliefs)

Femme dressée sur un piédestal orné de bas-reliefs (Woman Standing on a Pedestal Decorated with Bas-Reliefs)

Artist not stated in the record · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Decorative Hairpin

Design for a Decorative Hairpin

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tusk, by Kongo artist

Tusk

Kongo artist · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Radiator, by Stratton & Seymour, New York, New York, USA,1837–1842

Radiator

Stratton & Seymour, New York, New York, USA,1837–1842 · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Three Pedestals, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Designs for Three Pedestals

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770–80

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3880636 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 13:28 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.