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. 22 shown for “Trellised Targe for the Tilt” — 60 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 23:35 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.
Trellised Targe for the Tilt

Trellised Targe for the Tilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–60

Public domainThe Met
Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jan 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trellised Targe (Tournament Reinforce)

Trellised Targe (Tournament Reinforce)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550 to 1575

Public domainThe Met
Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Artist not stated in the record · 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor for Field and Tilt

Armor for Field and Tilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–75

Public domainThe Met
Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Mar 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor for Field and Tilt

Armor for Field and Tilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–75

Public domainThe Met
Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor for the Tilt, by Anton Peffenhauser

Armor for the Tilt

Anton Peffenhauser · ca. 1580

Public domainThe Met
Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor for the Tilt, by Anton Peffenhauser

Armor for the Tilt

Anton Peffenhauser · ca. 1580

Public domainThe Met
Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jan 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reinforcing Plates of Armor for the Tilt

Reinforcing Plates of Armor for the Tilt

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1551

Public domainThe Met
Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jan 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 11/12/57

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vamplate

Vamplate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550 to 1575

Public domainThe Met
Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Dec 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Elbow Reinforce (Pasguard or Soprabracciale)

Large Elbow Reinforce (Pasguard or Soprabracciale)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550 to 1575

Public domainThe Met
Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Nov 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Artist not stated in the record · 1814

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reinforcing Breastplate, Shoulder Defense, and Buffe (Chin Defense)

Reinforcing Breastplate, Shoulder Defense, and Buffe (Chin Defense)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550 to 1575

Public domainThe Met
Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jan 1912

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. 1240807 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-09 23:35 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.