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. 24 shown for “Amulet of a lion-headed Bastet” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 17:58 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.
Amulet of a lion-headed Bastet

Amulet of a lion-headed Bastet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 853c664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mixed Sketches with a Lion Statue, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mixed Sketches with a Lion Statue, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1883–1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bastet

Bastet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Sofa, Armchair, Console Table, Console Looking Glass

Designs for a Sofa, Armchair, Console Table, Console Looking Glass

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bastet

Bastet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Overdoor Design Set Within a Vault, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Overdoor Design Set Within a Vault

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aegis of Bastet

Aegis of Bastet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736

Ornamental Vase Design

L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736 · 1761-1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bastet with lion-headed aegis and basket

Bastet with lion-headed aegis and basket

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vase, by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Design for a Vase

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amuletic aegis of Bastet or Sakhmet

Amuletic aegis of Bastet or Sakhmet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ewer with Handle in the Shape of a Lion

Design for a Ewer with Handle in the Shape of a Lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aegis of Sakhmet or Bastet

Aegis of Sakhmet or Bastet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Military Trophy after Polidoro da Caravaggio

Military Trophy after Polidoro da Caravaggio

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aegis of Sakhmet or Bastet

Aegis of Sakhmet or Bastet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Console Looking Glass

Designs for a Console Looking Glass

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a lion-headed goddess

Statuette of a lion-headed goddess

Artist not stated in the record · 380–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cartouche with Crown, Two Putti Serving Bacchus, and Two Lions from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez", by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Design for Cartouche with Crown, Two Putti Serving Bacchus, and Two Lions from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aegis of Bastet / Sakhmet

Aegis of Bastet / Sakhmet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions

Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bastet on a throne decorated with the decans

Bastet on a throne decorated with the decans

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Teapot with Lion Head Spout, by Charles Nicolas Odiot, French, 1789 – 1868

Teapot with Lion Head Spout

Charles Nicolas Odiot, French, 1789 – 1868 · 1825–1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bastet Hieroglyph Amulet

Bastet Hieroglyph Amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Lion

Study of a Lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815

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. 87 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. 420 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-26 17:58 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.