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 “String of 12 elongated disc beads” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 05:43 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.
String of 12 elongated disc beads

String of 12 elongated disc beads

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

Public domainThe Met
String of beads, by Unidentified

String of beads

Unidentified · 1800-1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
String of 12 Beads

String of 12 Beads

Artist not stated in the record · 1st millennium CE

Public domainThe Met
String of large coral beads, by Unidentified

String of large coral beads

Unidentified · 1800-1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beads from Necklaces

Beads from Necklaces

Artist not stated in the record · 500–600

Public domainThe Met
Woodcarving of a slave trader with enslaved female figure, by Unidentified

Woodcarving of a slave trader with enslaved female figure

Unidentified · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
String of 12 Eye Beads

String of 12 Eye Beads

Artist not stated in the record · 600–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
String of 12 Eye Beads

String of 12 Eye Beads

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gilt Demitasse Spoon, Part of Set of Ten, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Gilt Demitasse Spoon, Part of Set of Ten

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
String of Beads

String of Beads

Artist not stated in the record · probably 8th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
String of 12 Eyed Beads

String of 12 Eyed Beads

Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th–late 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
String of Beads

String of Beads

Artist not stated in the record · probably 8th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
String of Beads

String of Beads

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
String of beads

String of beads

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
String of beads

String of beads

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
String of Beads

String of Beads

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 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. 292 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. 3143475 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 2026-08-29 05:43 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.