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 “Trumpet banner” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 03:56 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.
Kettle Drums, by Franz Peter Bundsen

Kettle Drums

Franz Peter Bundsen · 1780

Public domainThe Met
Banner

Banner

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trumpet banner

Trumpet banner

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche with a Genius, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Cartouche with a Genius

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Natural Trumpet, by Johann Wilhelm Haas

Natural Trumpet

Johann Wilhelm Haas · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Military Trophy Design, by François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797

Military Trophy Design

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Natural Trumpet, by Anton Kerner

Natural Trumpet

Anton Kerner · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche with Armorial Trophy, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Cartouche with Armorial Trophy

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fanfare trumpet in E-flat, by Adolphe (Antoine Joseph) Sax

Fanfare trumpet in E-flat

Adolphe (Antoine Joseph) Sax · 1856

Public domainThe Met
Trophy Designs, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Trophy Designs

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Caparisoned Elephant Standing (obverse); Two Karako with Trumpet, Banner (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Caparisoned Elephant Standing (obverse); Two Karako with Trumpet, Banner (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1778–1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Caparisoned Elephant Standing beneath Pine Tree (obverse); Three Children with Trumpet, Cymbals and Banner (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Caparisoned Elephant Standing beneath Pine Tree (obverse); Three Children with Trumpet, Cymbals and Banner (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Cartouche Design

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teapot, by Christopher Dresser

Teapot

Christopher Dresser · ca. 1879

Public domainThe Met
Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury, by Francis Delaram, 1589/90 - 1627

Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury

Francis Delaram, 1589/90 - 1627 · 1620-1624

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kettledrum

Kettledrum

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Speaking Trumpet, by unknown

Speaking Trumpet

unknown · unknown

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet 4: Men carrying trophies at left, trumpeters at right, from "The Triumph of Julius Caesar", by Andrea Andreani

Sheet 4: Men carrying trophies at left, trumpeters at right, from "The Triumph of Julius Caesar"

Andrea Andreani · 1599

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs, by Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802

Designs for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs

Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gourd Bowl Commemorating Independence from Spain, by Unknown Artist

Gourd Bowl Commemorating Independence from Spain

Unknown Artist · after 1821

Public domainThe Met
Pater Patriae

Pater Patriae

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
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. 29 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3623 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 03:56 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.