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 triangular prism with circles” — 46 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:40 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 triangular prism with circles

Serpentine triangular prism with circles

Artist not stated in the record · 2200–2000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Moon

Moon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Steatite triangular prism

Steatite triangular prism

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1750 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Polyhedron Model by Martin Berman, Augmented Triangular Prism, by Berman, Martin

Polyhedron Model by Martin Berman, Augmented Triangular Prism

Berman, Martin · 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Steatite triangular prism

Steatite triangular prism

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2400–1900 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Polyhedron Model by Martin Berman, Biaugmented Triangular Prism, by Berman, Martin

Polyhedron Model by Martin Berman, Biaugmented Triangular Prism

Berman, Martin · 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Steatite triangular prism

Steatite triangular prism

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1750 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Polyhedron Model by Martin Berman, Triaugmented Triangular Prism, by Berman, Martin

Polyhedron Model by Martin Berman, Triaugmented Triangular Prism

Berman, Martin · 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Steatite triangular prism

Steatite triangular prism

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2400–1900 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Perspectiva: Corporum Regularium, by Wenzel Jamnitzer, German, 1508–1585

Perspectiva: Corporum Regularium

Wenzel Jamnitzer, German, 1508–1585 · 1568

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Steatite rectangular prism

Steatite rectangular prism

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1750 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaise

Chaise

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger Form Knife

Dagger Form Knife

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cream denim hooded jumpsuit by Douglas Owens, by Douglas Owens Gear, American

Cream denim hooded jumpsuit by Douglas Owens

Douglas Owens Gear, American · 1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–85

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 255994 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 17:40 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.