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. 20 shown for “Arachnothera magna magna” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:29 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.
Magna Britannia: Her Colonies Reduced, by Benjamin Franklin

Magna Britannia: Her Colonies Reduced

Benjamin Franklin · 1833 [based on 1766 print]

Public domainThe Met
Arachnothera magna magna

Arachnothera magna magna

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Dec 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Recumbent Lion

Recumbent Lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2575–2450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arachnothera magna magna

Arachnothera magna magna

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Dec 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble fragment of a cinerary urn

Marble fragment of a cinerary urn

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Arachnothera magna magna

Arachnothera magna magna

Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble cinerary urn

Marble cinerary urn

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Arachnothera magna magna

Arachnothera magna magna

Artist not stated in the record · -- -- 18--

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral of Huynefer

Pectoral of Huynefer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arachnothera magna magna

Arachnothera magna magna

Artist not stated in the record · -- -- 18--

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral of Huynefer

Pectoral of Huynefer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arachnothera magna magna

Arachnothera magna magna

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jan 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris

Figure of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arachnothera magna magna

Arachnothera magna magna

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Dec 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Magna Carta, by Anonymous, French, 18th century

Magna Carta

Anonymous, French, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Arachnothera magna magna

Arachnothera magna magna

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Feb 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold finger ring engraved with an image of Hermes

Gold finger ring engraved with an image of Hermes

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arachnothera magna magna

Arachnothera magna magna

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arachnothera magna magna

Arachnothera magna magna

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arachnothera magna magna

Arachnothera magna magna

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Nov 1946

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. 128 matched · 24 examined · 15 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3124 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-02 17:29 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.