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 “Seal with Knob in the Shape of a Turtle” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:46 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.
Seal with Knob in the Shape of a Turtle

Seal with Knob in the Shape of a Turtle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Writing kit

Writing kit

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seal with Knob in the Shape of a Turtle

Seal with Knob in the Shape of a Turtle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Goblet Celebrating the Marriage of Coenraad Jan van Zuylen van Nievelt (1716–67) and Theodora Wilhelmina van Lynden (1727–96)

Goblet Celebrating the Marriage of Coenraad Jan van Zuylen van Nievelt (1716–67) and Theodora Wilhelmina van Lynden (1727–96)

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, by I N

Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London

I N · 1675/76

Public domainThe Met
Five chalices, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Five chalices

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helmet with Aventail

Helmet with Aventail

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

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver tea pot

George III sterling silver tea pot

Artist not stated in the record · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish in the shape of a leaf

Dish in the shape of a leaf

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Wooden mallet

Wooden mallet

Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th-mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seal, by Jacob Boelen

Seal

Jacob Boelen · ca. 1704

Public domainThe Met
Goblet Commemorating François Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1725–93) and his wife Everdina Petronella (1730–94), countess of Hogendorp

Goblet Commemorating François Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1725–93) and his wife Everdina Petronella (1730–94), countess of Hogendorp

Artist not stated in the record · 1761–1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seal

Seal

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Teapot with Allegorical Scenes of "Africa" and "America", by Höchst Ceramics Manufactory, German, 1746 - 1796

Teapot with Allegorical Scenes of "Africa" and "America"

Höchst Ceramics Manufactory, German, 1746 - 1796 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seal

Seal

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Silver Coffee Urn, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Silver Coffee Urn

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1820–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turban Helmet

Turban Helmet

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Knob with Escutcheon and Lock Mechanism

Knob with Escutcheon and Lock Mechanism

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seal with knob in the shape of a wheel

Seal with knob in the shape of a wheel

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1424

Public domainThe Met
Sad iron owned by members of the Ellis family, by Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Pennsylvania, American

Sad iron owned by members of the Ellis family

Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Pennsylvania, American · after 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Public domainThe Met
Cream jug and cover with tray

Cream jug and cover with tray

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turban Helmet

Turban Helmet

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

Public domainThe Met
Grand Army of the Republic medal owned by Marquis Peterson

Grand Army of the Republic medal owned by Marquis Peterson

Artist not stated in the record · 1866-1896

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. 14968 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. 7483554 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-28 03:46 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.