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 “Stone votive relief of an ear with earring” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:37 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.
Stone votive relief of an ear with earring

Stone votive relief of an ear with earring

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Earrings and Brooches

Earrings and Brooches

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

Artist not stated in the record · mid-1st century

Public domainThe Met
Earrings

Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring

Earring

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Earrings

Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle relief, by Toltec artist(s)

Eagle relief

Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Snuff bottle and stopper

Snuff bottle and stopper

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with enthroned ruler, by Chakalte'

Relief with enthroned ruler

Chakalte' · 770 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sauceboat (One of a Pair), by Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)

Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stone votive relief of an eye

Stone votive relief of an eye

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mirror with candle brackets

Mirror with candle brackets

Artist not stated in the record · 1720–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary relief

Funerary relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Earring

Design for an Earring

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief panel

Relief panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 883–859 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Earrings

Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble votive relief of a horseman

Marble votive relief of a horseman

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble fragment of a votive relief with Athena

Marble fragment of a votive relief with Athena

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 405–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble votive relief fragment of goddesses, mother, nurse, and infant

Marble votive relief fragment of goddesses, mother, nurse, and infant

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Earring

Design for an Earring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle relief, by Toltec artist(s)

Eagle relief

Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sauceboat (One of a Pair), by Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)

Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776 · ca. 1750

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. 156 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3043996 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-27 18:37 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.