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. 10 shown for “Wreath fillet, funerary” — 40 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:01 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Wire frame, victor's wreath

Wire frame, victor's wreath

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wire frame, wreath on stand

Wire frame, wreath on stand

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wire frame, wreath, large

Wire frame, wreath, large

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wire frames, wreath

Wire frames, wreath

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
RECEUIL DES Plans Profils et Elevations Des plusieurs Palais Chasteaux Eglises Sepultures Grotes et Hostels, Bâtis dans Paris, et aux environs, avec beaucoup de magnificence, par les meilleu Architects du Royaume, desseignez, mesurés, et gravez par Jean Marot Architecte Parisien, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

RECEUIL DES Plans Profils et Elevations Des plusieurs Palais Chasteaux Eglises Sepultures Grotes et Hostels, Bâtis dans Paris, et aux environs, avec beaucoup de magnificence, par les meilleu Architects du Royaume, desseignez, mesurés, et gravez par Jean Marot Architecte Parisien

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Five Different Fillets," Plate 6 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs", by Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650

"Five Different Fillets," Plate 6 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"

Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Oblong Fillet Flanked by Two Needle Cases (?)," Plate 5 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs", by Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650

"Oblong Fillet Flanked by Two Needle Cases (?)," Plate 5 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"

Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les Jetteurs de Fillets (Casting of Nets)

Les Jetteurs de Fillets (Casting of Nets)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kylix

Kylix

Artist not stated in the record · 600–550 BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bracket

Bracket

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 5422 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 2026-08-28 01:01 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.