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. 19 shown for “War Mask” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:20 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.
War Mask

War Mask

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
General Winfield Scott

General Winfield Scott

Artist not stated in the record · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
War Mask

War Mask

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Small box respirator, by Unidentified

Small box respirator

Unidentified · 1917-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià, by Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists

Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià

Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Mask and ring handle

Mask and ring handle

Artist not stated in the record · 5th-4th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor (Gusoku), by Yukinoshita Sadaiyé

Armor (Gusoku)

Yukinoshita Sadaiyé · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
3d Bn. 366 Inf. - 92nd Div. at Gas Mask drill - Ainvelle, Vosges, France - Aug 8, 1918

3d Bn. 366 Inf. - 92nd Div. at Gas Mask drill - Ainvelle, Vosges, France - Aug 8, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · August 8,1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask (Sōmen) Representing a Tengu

Mask (Sōmen) Representing a Tengu

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
On the Gas Alert, by Townsend, Harry

On the Gas Alert

Townsend, Harry · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask in the Shape of a Mountain Demon's Face

Mask in the Shape of a Mountain Demon's Face

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
FLAMBEAUX, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

FLAMBEAUX

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of two-light wall brackets

Pair of two-light wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
George Washington life mask, by Unidentified Artist

George Washington life mask

Unidentified Artist · c. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Big Nims" - 366 Inf. Ainvelle, Vosges, France, Aug 8, 1918

"Big Nims" - 366 Inf. Ainvelle, Vosges, France, Aug 8, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · August 8,1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elévation et Profil d'une Commode enrichie de Marqueterie, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Elévation et Profil d'une Commode enrichie de Marqueterie

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elévation et Profil d'une Commode enrichie de Marqueterie, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Elévation et Profil d'une Commode enrichie de Marqueterie

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wand with a dragon head

Wand with a dragon head

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 475-221 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
LA GUERRE, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

LA GUERRE

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

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. 89 matched · 24 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 34961 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-28 06:20 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.