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. 23 shown for “Wire frame, crown” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 14:11 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.
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Wire frames, crown

Wire frames, crown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wire frame, crown & cross on stand

Wire frame, crown & cross on stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elderly king

Elderly king

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, crown & cross on folding stand

Wire frame, crown & cross on folding stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crown, by North Coast artist(s)

Crown

North Coast artist(s) · 800–1400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, crown & cross, small

Wire frame, crown & cross, small

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King, by Nicola Ingaldi

King

Nicola Ingaldi · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, crown & cross, small

Wire frame, crown & cross, small

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moorish king

Moorish king

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, crown

Wire frame, crown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet with scenes from the Story of Esther

Cabinet with scenes from the Story of Esther

Artist not stated in the record · after 1665

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, casket cross, large

Wire frame, casket cross, large

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viscount Admiral Lord Nelson

Viscount Admiral Lord Nelson

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, cross on stand

Wire frame, cross on stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Black king

Black king

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

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, slanted cross, small

Wire frame, slanted cross, small

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rapier

Rapier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, slanted cross on stand

Wire frame, slanted cross on stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rapier with Scabbard, by Juan Martinez

Rapier with Scabbard

Juan Martinez · ca. 1580

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, cross & star center on stand

Wire frame, cross & star center on stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shepherd

Shepherd

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, cross on stand

Wire frame, cross on stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

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. 765 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 26433 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-08 14:11 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.