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 “The Coat of Arms of Tschertie” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:49 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 Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories, by James Purdey the Elder

Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories

James Purdey the Elder · 1831

Public domainThe Met
The Coat of Arms of Tschertie

The Coat of Arms of Tschertie

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1521

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories, by Wogdon & Barton

Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories

Wogdon & Barton · 1801–3

Public domainThe Met
Design for the coat of arms of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, by Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Design for the coat of arms of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon

Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories, by Nicolas Noël Boutet

Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories

Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Design for the coat of arms of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, by Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Design for the coat of arms of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon

Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Three Coats of Arms, by Jean-Raymond de Petity, French, 1724 – 1780

Three Coats of Arms

Jean-Raymond de Petity, French, 1724 – 1780 · 1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six-Barreled Pepperbox Disk Primer Pistol with Case and Accessories, by Joseph Rock Cooper

Six-Barreled Pepperbox Disk Primer Pistol with Case and Accessories

Joseph Rock Cooper · ca. 1840–1850

Public domainThe Met
Coat of Arms, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Coat of Arms

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rapier of Prince-Elector Christian II of Saxony (1583–1611), by Israel Schuech

Rapier of Prince-Elector Christian II of Saxony (1583–1611)

Israel Schuech · dated 1606

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vertical Panel with Heraldic Devices

Design for a Vertical Panel with Heraldic Devices

Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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
Designs for Crowns and Coat of Arms, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648–1719

Designs for Crowns and Coat of Arms

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648–1719 · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Armor and Sword in the Classical Style, by Hallé

Costume Armor and Sword in the Classical Style

Hallé · ca. 1788–90

Public domainThe Met
Les plaisirs de l'Isle enchantée

Les plaisirs de l'Isle enchantée

Artist not stated in the record · 1664

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
The Coat of Arms of Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585)

The Coat of Arms of Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585)

Artist not stated in the record · 1580–1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saber with Scabbard

Saber with Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · grip, 18th or 19th century; guard and scabbard, 19th century; blade, dated A.H. 1099/1688 CE; decoration on blade, 19th century

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
Dagger with Scabbard

Dagger with Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · 1605–27

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain with the Coat-of-Arms of Pope Gregory XVI

Design for a Fountain with the Coat-of-Arms of Pope Gregory XVI

Artist not stated in the record · 1831–1836

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
Catafalque, with Coat-of-Arms of the Albani Family

Catafalque, with Coat-of-Arms of the Albani Family

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th–late 17th 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. 18819 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. 2986360 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-03 04:49 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.