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. 24 shown for “Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:28 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.
Conoid seal

Conoid seal

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mail Early with Christmas Stamps poster

Mail Early with Christmas Stamps poster

Artist not stated in the record · 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mail Early with Christmas Stamps poster

Mail Early with Christmas Stamps poster

Artist not stated in the record · 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

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

Public domainThe Met
Letter written to William V. Brady

Letter written to William V. Brady

Artist not stated in the record · January 25, 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

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

Public domainThe Met
Turbinaria conoides var. conoides forma laticuspidata

Turbinaria conoides var. conoides forma laticuspidata

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

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

Public domainThe Met
Turbinaria conoides var. conoides forma laticuspidata

Turbinaria conoides var. conoides forma laticuspidata

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Turbinaria conoides var. conoides forma laticuspidata

Turbinaria conoides var. conoides forma laticuspidata

Artist not stated in the record · 22 May 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

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

Public domainThe Met
Case for sealing wax

Case for sealing wax

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene and divine beings

Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene and divine beings

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

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Certificate, F. A. I., James H. Doolittle

Certificate, F. A. I., James H. Doolittle

Artist not stated in the record · 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
3c Washington top sheet margin strip of four on cover

3c Washington top sheet margin strip of four on cover

Artist not stated in the record · June 24, 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

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

Public domainThe Met
Letter

Letter

Artist not stated in the record · December 10, 1850

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. 212 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. 266685 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 18:28 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.