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. 17 shown for “Wrist Rest” — 64 records examined, 46 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:15 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Wrist Rest

Wrist Rest

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

Public domainThe Met
Summer Afternoon, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Summer Afternoon

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wrist Rest

Wrist Rest

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Yad

Yad

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wrist rest

Wrist rest

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Page from a photograph album with six mounted photographs

Page from a photograph album with six mounted photographs

Artist not stated in the record · 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wrist rest with seascape and eight immortals

Wrist rest with seascape and eight immortals

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ivory leather gloves with pearl buttons, by Unidentified

Ivory leather gloves with pearl buttons

Unidentified · early to mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wrist Rest with Scene from "The West Chamber"

Wrist Rest with Scene from "The West Chamber"

Artist not stated in the record · dated to either 1674 or 1734

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of a man in wooly chaps holding a coil of rope

Photographic postcard of a man in wooly chaps holding a coil of rope

Artist not stated in the record · 1917-1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wrist Rest with Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

Wrist Rest with Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Wrist rest with kingfisher and lotus

Wrist rest with kingfisher and lotus

Artist not stated in the record · 1368–1644

Public domainThe Met
Dancer with a Fan, by Edgar Degas

Dancer with a Fan

Edgar Degas · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana

Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Stirrup-spout bottle with seated figure, by Moche artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with seated figure

Moche artist(s) · 200 CE–500 CE

Public domainThe Met
The Bodhisattva Vajrapani

The Bodhisattva Vajrapani

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

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. 45 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. 8426 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 12:15 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.