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 “Stamp seal (bifacial disk) with animals and divine symbols” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:30 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.
Stamp seal (bifacial disk) with animals and divine symbols

Stamp seal (bifacial disk) with animals and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
4c Malaria Eradcation plate proof, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

4c Malaria Eradcation plate proof

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · February 15, 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (bifacial disk) with animals and divine symbols

Stamp seal (bifacial disk) with animals and divine symbols

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

Public domainThe Met
Device for Army Officer’s cap worn by General Colin L. Powell

Device for Army Officer’s cap worn by General Colin L. Powell

Artist not stated in the record · 1960-1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (bifacial scaraboid) with animal and divine symbol

Stamp seal (bifacial scaraboid) with animal and divine symbol

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

Public domainThe Met
Vera’s Patent Model of a Friction Heater – ca 1869

Vera’s Patent Model of a Friction Heater – ca 1869

Artist not stated in the record · 1869-01-19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ibex-Shaped Design Amulet Inscribed With A Crocodile and A Fish

Ibex-Shaped Design Amulet Inscribed With A Crocodile and A Fish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Key check

Key check

Artist not stated in the record · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animal and divine symbols

Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animal and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

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
Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animal and divine symbols

Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animal and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stamp seal (conoid) with animal and divine symbols

Stamp seal (conoid) with animal and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · second half of 8th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with animals and divine symbols

Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with animals and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stamp-cylinder seal (quarter cylinder) with cultic scene, animals (?), and divine symbols

Stamp-cylinder seal (quarter cylinder) with cultic scene, animals (?), and divine symbols

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

Public domainThe Met
Stamp seal (bifacial disk) with cultic scene and monsters

Stamp seal (bifacial disk) with cultic scene and monsters

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

Public domainThe Met
Stamp seal (cubical) with animals, monsters, and divine symbols

Stamp seal (cubical) with animals, monsters, and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · second half of 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animal and divine symbols

Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animal and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 7th 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. 90 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 2623595 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 2026-08-28 07:30 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.