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 “Spanish Miquelet Lock Pistol” — 55 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 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.
Pair of Miquelet Pistols

Pair of Miquelet Pistols

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1687

Public domainThe Met
Spanish Miquelet Lock Pistol

Spanish Miquelet Lock Pistol

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miquelet Pistol, by Llorens Torrens

Miquelet Pistol

Llorens Torrens · ca. 1790–1807

Public domainThe Met
Spanish Miquelet Lock Pistol

Spanish Miquelet Lock Pistol

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Pistols with Flintlocks a Las Tres Modas, by Workshop of the Ybarzabel family

Pair of Pistols with Flintlocks a Las Tres Modas

Workshop of the Ybarzabel family · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Aguirre 1804 Miquelet Lock Pistol

Aguirre 1804 Miquelet Lock Pistol

Artist not stated in the record · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Miquelet Pistols, by Francisco Pintan

Pair of Miquelet Pistols

Francisco Pintan · dated 1757

Public domainThe Met
Miquelet Lock Pistol

Miquelet Lock Pistol

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miquelet Gun Made for Charles IV of Spain (reigned 1788–1808), by Antonio Guisasola

Miquelet Gun Made for Charles IV of Spain (reigned 1788–1808)

Antonio Guisasola · dated 1796

Public domainThe Met
North African Miquelet Jezail (Musket)

North African Miquelet Jezail (Musket)

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Pistols with Flintlocks a la moda, by Gabriel de Algora

Pair of Pistols with Flintlocks a la moda

Gabriel de Algora · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Flintlock Pistols Made for Ferdinand IV, King of Naples and Sicily (1751–1825), by Royal Arms Manufactory at Torre Annunziata

Pair of Flintlock Pistols Made for Ferdinand IV, King of Naples and Sicily (1751–1825)

Royal Arms Manufactory at Torre Annunziata · ca. 1768

Public domainThe Met
Gun with Flintlock a la moda, by Gabriel de Algora

Gun with Flintlock a la moda

Gabriel de Algora · dated 1744

Public domainThe Met
Miquelet Gun

Miquelet Gun

Artist not stated in the record · dated A.H. 1199/ 1784–85 CE

Public domainThe Met
Miquelet Pistol

Miquelet Pistol

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–75; barrel, dated 1145 A.H. / 1732 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Miquelet Pistols

Pair of Miquelet Pistols

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1623; locks, second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cased Pair of Flintlock Pistols Presented to Captain Cayetano Valdés y Flores, by Nicolas Noël Boutet

Cased Pair of Flintlock Pistols Presented to Captain Cayetano Valdés y Flores

Nicolas Noël Boutet · 1801–02

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. 15 matched · 15 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. 9927 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 2026-09-01 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.