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 “Table Cover with a Coat of Arms” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:36 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.
Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories, by Durs Egg

Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories

Durs Egg · ca. 1805–10; converted after 1818

Public domainThe Met
Table cover or chalice cover

Table cover or chalice cover

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Pellet-Lock Pistols with Case with Accessories, by Charles Moore

Pair of Pellet-Lock Pistols with Case with Accessories

Charles Moore · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Rendering of the Grand Gallery of Honor, Palazzo Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Unknown

Rendering of the Grand Gallery of Honor, Palazzo Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Unknown · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flintlock Longrifle, by Jacob Kuntz

Flintlock Longrifle

Jacob Kuntz · ca. 1810–20

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass Commemorating Prince William V (1748–1806), Governor of the Netherlands, and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751–1820)

Wine Glass Commemorating Prince William V (1748–1806), Governor of the Netherlands, and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751–1820)

Artist not stated in the record · 1767–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories, by Samuel Colt

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories

Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table Cover with a Coat of Arms

Table Cover with a Coat of Arms

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Coat

Coat

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat, by Richard Holden

Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat

Richard Holden · ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Goblet Commemorating François Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1725–93) and his wife Everdina Petronella (1730–94), countess of Hogendorp

Goblet Commemorating François Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1725–93) and his wife Everdina Petronella (1730–94), countess of Hogendorp

Artist not stated in the record · 1761–1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flintlock Gun of Louis XIII (1601–1643), King of France, by Pierre Le Bourgeois

Flintlock Gun of Louis XIII (1601–1643), King of France

Pierre Le Bourgeois · ca. 1620

Public domainThe Met
Goblet Commemorating the Seven United Provinces and Prince William IV, Governor of the Netherlands

Goblet Commemorating the Seven United Provinces and Prince William IV, Governor of the Netherlands

Artist not stated in the record · 1747

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406, by Samuel Colt

Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406

Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
Etui and cover

Etui and cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard, by James Morisset

Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard

James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98

Public domainThe Met
Goblet Celebrating the Marriage of Coenraad Jan van Zuylen van Nievelt (1716–67) and Theodora Wilhelmina van Lynden (1727–96)

Goblet Celebrating the Marriage of Coenraad Jan van Zuylen van Nievelt (1716–67) and Theodora Wilhelmina van Lynden (1727–96)

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869), by Samuel Jackson

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)

Samuel Jackson · 1854–55

Public domainThe Met
Hot Water Urn, by Auguste Le Sage, British, active London 1769 – 1780s

Hot Water Urn

Auguste Le Sage, British, active London 1769 – 1780s · 1770–1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · 19th or first decade of 20th century (with earlier parts)

Public domainThe Met
Melchizedek Brings Bread and Wine to Abraham [above]; Unicorn Hunt [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Melchizedek Brings Bread and Wine to Abraham [above]; Unicorn Hunt [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1584–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Breech-Loading Rimfire Cartridge Pistol with Case and Accessories, by Louis Nicolas Auguste Flobert

Breech-Loading Rimfire Cartridge Pistol with Case and Accessories

Louis Nicolas Auguste Flobert · ca. 1855

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776

Title Page

Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776 · 1730

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. 3161 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. 3886024 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-08 09:36 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.