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. 17 shown for “Serpentine mold for casting bead pendants” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:32 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.
Serpentine mold for casting bead pendants

Serpentine mold for casting bead pendants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bead

Bead

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by M.H. Birge & Sons Co., 1834

Sidewall

M.H. Birge & Sons Co., 1834 · 1890–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta necklace with palmette and lotus pendants

Terracotta necklace with palmette and lotus pendants

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Window shade

Window shade

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta necklace with palmette and lotus pendants

Terracotta necklace with palmette and lotus pendants

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass pendant in the shape of Harpokrates

Glass pendant in the shape of Harpokrates

Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for Molds for Casting Blocks for Printing Carpets or Wall Paper, by Berry, James

Patent Model for Molds for Casting Blocks for Printing Carpets or Wall Paper

Berry, James · ca 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass pendant

Glass pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Frog Pendant

Frog Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 550–850 CE

Public domainThe Met
Jewelry Elements for a Broad Collar

Jewelry Elements for a Broad Collar

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

Public domainThe Met
Double crocodile pendant, by Coclé (Macaracas) artist

Double crocodile pendant

Coclé (Macaracas) artist · 950–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Gold hoop with glass pendant in the form of a youthful head

Gold hoop with glass pendant in the form of a youthful head

Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Glass double-headed pendant with gold hoop

Glass double-headed pendant with gold hoop

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

Public domainThe Met
Glass pendant in the form of a bunch of grapes

Glass pendant in the form of a bunch of grapes

Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–1st century BCE

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. 61 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. 479950 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 13:32 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.