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 with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 02:43 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 with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters

Amulet with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 1701–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters

Amulet with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chanceliere, by Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776

Chanceliere

Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters

Amulet with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scepter for Papal Ceremonies

Scepter for Papal Ceremonies

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay, ankh with was scepters

Inlay, ankh with was scepters

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sakyamuni on an elephant, by Formerly attributed to Su Hanchen (active early to mid-12th century)

Sakyamuni on an elephant

Formerly attributed to Su Hanchen (active early to mid-12th century) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay, ankh, was scepters

Inlay, ankh, was scepters

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist stele

Buddhist stele

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 564 C. E.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, ankh and was scepters

Inlay fragment, ankh and was scepters

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fork

Fork

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay, ankh with was scepters

Inlay, ankh with was scepters

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cartouche, from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez", by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Design for Cartouche, from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ankh, djed, was on neb basket

Ankh, djed, was on neb basket

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 1801–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)

Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate

Plate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scepter with profile figures, by Maya artist(s)

Scepter with profile figures

Maya artist(s) · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tazza, by Clérissy Factory, established ca. 1686

Tazza

Clérissy Factory, established ca. 1686 · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flail of Hapiankhtifi

Flail of Hapiankhtifi

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Frontispiece: Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno l'origine, solennita`, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio (Alfonso Isachi's account of the origin, solemnity, translatione[?], and miracles of the Madonna of Reggio), by Giovanni Luigi Valesio, Italian, ca. 1583 - 1633

Frontispiece: Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno l'origine, solennita`, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio (Alfonso Isachi's account of the origin, solemnity, translatione[?], and miracles of the Madonna of Reggio)

Giovanni Luigi Valesio, Italian, ca. 1583 - 1633 · 1619

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cowroid Inscribed with an Ankh

Cowroid Inscribed with an Ankh

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace with amulet

Necklace with amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 359 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1669327 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-30 02:43 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.