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. 12 shown for “Amarna letter: Royal Letter from Abi-milku of Tyre to the king of Egypt” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:21 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Amarna letter: Royal Letter from Abi-milku of Tyre to the king of Egypt

Amarna letter: Royal Letter from Abi-milku of Tyre to the king of Egypt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Amarna letter: Royal Letter from Ashur-uballit, the king of Assyria, to the king of Egypt

Amarna letter: Royal Letter from Ashur-uballit, the king of Assyria, to the king of Egypt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Public domainThe Met
Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat, by Richard Holden

Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat

Richard Holden · ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
The letters of Sir Richard Westmacott, by Sir Richard Westmacott

The letters of Sir Richard Westmacott

Sir Richard Westmacott · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Flight into Egypt, by Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura)

The Flight into Egypt

Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) · 1470s

Public domainThe Met
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France, by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger

Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Relief with the Head of Amenhotep I

Relief with the Head of Amenhotep I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Trial Piece with Relief of Head of Akhenaten

Trial Piece with Relief of Head of Akhenaten

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Facsimile painting from the 'Green Room' in the North Palace at Amarna, by Nina de Garis Davies

Facsimile painting from the 'Green Room' in the North Palace at Amarna

Nina de Garis Davies · 1926; original ca. 1347–1330 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. 416 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

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