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. 18 shown for “Upright bell (nao)” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:35 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.
Upright bell (nao)

Upright bell (nao)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Upright piano used by Thom Bell at Philadelphia International Records

Upright piano used by Thom Bell at Philadelphia International Records

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upright bell (nao)

Upright bell (nao)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bell (Yongzhong)

Bell (Yongzhong)

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Watch-tower, Corner of Spring and Varick Streets, New York

Watch-tower, Corner of Spring and Varick Streets, New York

Artist not stated in the record · February 28, 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bell

Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 500–1520 CE

Public domainThe Met
Grateloupia sp.

Grateloupia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 May 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Division Viol, by Richard Meares

Division Viol

Richard Meares · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Island of Naos, from Perico, Bay of Panama, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Island of Naos, from Perico, Bay of Panama

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upright Serpent in D

Upright Serpent in D

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–20

Public domainThe Met
Perico and Flamenco - from Island of Naos, Panama, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Perico and Flamenco - from Island of Naos, Panama

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cañon of Kanab Wash, Looking South, by William H. Bell

Cañon of Kanab Wash, Looking South

William H. Bell · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Photographs Showing Landscapes, Geological and Other Features, of Portions of the Western Territory of the United States, Obtained in connection with Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Season of 1872, by William H. Bell

Photographs Showing Landscapes, Geological and Other Features, of Portions of the Western Territory of the United States, Obtained in connection with Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Season of 1872

William H. Bell · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Imaginary Landscape with the Palatine Hill from Campo Vaccino, by François Boucher

Imaginary Landscape with the Palatine Hill from Campo Vaccino

François Boucher · early 1730s

Public domainThe Met
Writing table, by Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix

Writing table

Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix · ca. 1760–70

Public domainThe Met
Serpent Forveille in B-flat, by Forveille

Serpent Forveille in B-flat

Forveille · ca. 1825

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. 36 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. 14914 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 21:35 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.