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. 20 shown for “Stag pendant with bell feet” — 63 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:24 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.
Stag pendant with bell feet

Stag pendant with bell feet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 1st millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stag, by Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875

Stag

Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875 · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure pendant, by Greater Chiriquí artist

Figure pendant

Greater Chiriquí artist · 700–1550 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pendant in the form of a stag

Pendant in the form of a stag

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1050-ca. 950 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bell Pendant

Bell Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1520 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pendant with Madonna

Pendant with Madonna

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Avian Bell

Avian Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1520 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for two pendants with boar's head and hanging bell

Design for two pendants with boar's head and hanging bell

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turtle Bell

Turtle Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1520 CE

Public domainThe Met
Urn

Urn

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt clasp

Belt clasp

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

Public domainThe Met
Decorative panel

Decorative panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Warrior Figure, by Lower Niger Valley caster

Warrior Figure

Lower Niger Valley caster · 1455–1640

Public domainThe Met
Baby Rattle with Bust of a Baby in a Nightcap

Baby Rattle with Bust of a Baby in a Nightcap

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch in the form of a stag

Brooch in the form of a stag

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 3rd–early 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Tea Urn in the Shape of Atlas Supporting the World, by Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801

Tea Urn in the Shape of Atlas Supporting the World

Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock watch with astronomical dial and sundial, by Jan Jansen Bockeltz

Clock watch with astronomical dial and sundial

Jan Jansen Bockeltz · ca. 1605–10

Public domainThe Met
Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary) prayer book, by Baselyos, also known as "The Ground Hornbill Master"

Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary) prayer book

Baselyos, also known as "The Ground Hornbill Master" · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
The Interrupted Sleep, by François Boucher

The Interrupted Sleep

François Boucher · 1750

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. 23 matched · 23 examined · 8 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. 268957 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 00:24 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.