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 “Tray with Sun Symbol” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:46 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.
Tray with Sun Symbol

Tray with Sun Symbol

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Tray, from a Lemonade Set, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tray, from a Lemonade Set

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray, by Tiffany & Co.

Tray

Tiffany & Co. · 1879–80

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Braziers and Trays, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Designs for Braziers and Trays, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glove tray, by M(?).B.

Glove tray

M(?).B. · 1723–24

Public domainThe Met
Sundial compass

Sundial compass

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray

Tray

Artist not stated in the record · 1250–1300

Public domainThe Met
The Sun, from The Seven Planets, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

The Sun, from The Seven Planets

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1539

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sutra Box (Kyōbako) with Sun and Clouds

Sutra Box (Kyōbako) with Sun and Clouds

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Fire Bucket, "Jonas White", by unknown

Fire Bucket, "Jonas White"

unknown · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray

Tray

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design Amulet with Loop on Back, Device with Dancing God, Hathor Symbol and Lion

Design Amulet with Loop on Back, Device with Dancing God, Hathor Symbol and Lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2325–2150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Symbol of the Evangelist Matthew

Plaque with the Symbol of the Evangelist Matthew

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Symbol of the Evangelist John

Plaque with the Symbol of the Evangelist John

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1670–1695

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Symbol of the Evangelist Mark

Plaque with the Symbol of the Evangelist Mark

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Hanging

Hanging

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Symbol of the Evangelist Luke

Plaque with the Symbol of the Evangelist Luke

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 446 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 261340 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 2026-08-27 18:46 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.