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. 23 shown for “String of 46 round beads in graded sizes” — 60 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:02 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 46 round beads in graded sizes

String of 46 round beads in graded sizes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1504 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Venetian glass trade beads, by Unidentified

Venetian glass trade beads

Unidentified · ca. 16th or 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Venetian glass trade beads, by Unidentified

Venetian glass trade beads

Unidentified · 18th to 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, by Albrecht Dürer

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Public domainThe Met
Venetian glass trade beads, by Unidentified

Venetian glass trade beads

Unidentified · ca. 16th or 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Venetian glass trade beads, by Unidentified

Venetian glass trade beads

Unidentified · ca. 16th or 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Venetian glass trade beads, by Unidentified

Venetian glass trade beads

Unidentified · ca. 16th or 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Necklace with conical beads, by Moche artist(s)

Necklace with conical beads

Moche artist(s) · 200-850 CE

Public domainThe Met
Black and white striped pants worn by Verdine White of Earth Wind & Fire, by Louis Wells, born 1957

Black and white striped pants worn by Verdine White of Earth Wind & Fire

Louis Wells, born 1957 · 2004-2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Column with Hathor-emblem capital and names of Nectanebo I on the shaft

Column with Hathor-emblem capital and names of Nectanebo I on the shaft

Artist not stated in the record · 380–362 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo, by Francisco de Zurbarán

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Public domainThe Met
String of glass millefiori beads, by Unidentified

String of glass millefiori beads

Unidentified · 1800-1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crescent-Shaped Pendant with Confronted Birds

Crescent-Shaped Pendant with Confronted Birds

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
String of large coral beads, by Unidentified

String of large coral beads

Unidentified · 1800-1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing cup

Standing cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
Light taupe dress with beaded embellishments, by Unidentified

Light taupe dress with beaded embellishments

Unidentified · ca.1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress

Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Basket with Decorative Beading, by Ira Blount

Basket with Decorative Beading

Ira Blount · late 20th-early 21st Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crucifix

Crucifix

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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. 20 matched · 20 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. 7483611 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 11:02 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.