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. 18 shown for “Apis” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:45 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.
Apis

Apis

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dryobalanops rappa Becc.

Dryobalanops rappa Becc.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Mar 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apis

Apis

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Leptothrix symplocoides Dickie

Leptothrix symplocoides Dickie

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apis

Apis

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Leptothrix symplocoides Dickie

Leptothrix symplocoides Dickie

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apis Bull Figure

Apis Bull Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mallota apis

Mallota apis

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1996 to 21 Jul 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet, Head of an Apis Bull

Amulet, Head of an Apis Bull

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coix lacryma-jobi L.

Coix lacryma-jobi L.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apis, inscribed

Apis, inscribed

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis trichophora

Eragrostis trichophora

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Feb 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apis(?)

Apis(?)

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Apis figure inscribed for Padishernefer son of Khonsuirdis

Apis figure inscribed for Padishernefer son of Khonsuirdis

Artist not stated in the record · 664–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coffin Footboard depicting Apis bull carrying mummy

Coffin Footboard depicting Apis bull carrying mummy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Apis with an inscription invoking Ptah for the benefit of Pasheryta[...] whose mother was Isetemhat

Apis with an inscription invoking Ptah for the benefit of Pasheryta[...] whose mother was Isetemhat

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers

Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers

Artist not stated in the record · 664–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Upper part of a statuette of the Mother of the Apis

Upper part of a statuette of the Mother of the Apis

Artist not stated in the record · 664–200 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. 61 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. 110 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 18:45 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.