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. 17 shown for “Aryballos with the name Wahibre, probably referring to Apries” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:24 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.
Aryballos with the name Wahibre, probably referring to Apries

Aryballos with the name Wahibre, probably referring to Apries

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Aryballos

Aryballos

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century to 6th century B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab with the name Wahibre, either Psamtik I or Apries

Scarab with the name Wahibre, either Psamtik I or Apries

Artist not stated in the record · 664–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Aryballos (Oil Flask), by Unidentified (Roman)

Aryballos (Oil Flask)

Unidentified (Roman) · 1st-4th century AD

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Achelous, by Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Hercules and Achelous

Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Aryballos (Oil Flask), by Unidentified (Roman Empire)

Aryballos (Oil Flask)

Unidentified (Roman Empire) · 1st-4th century AD

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Carte du Théatre de la Guerre

Carte du Théatre de la Guerre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shrine sistrum of King Apries

Shrine sistrum of King Apries

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scent Bottle (Aryballos), by Unidentified (Roman)

Scent Bottle (Aryballos)

Unidentified (Roman) · 600-300 B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome, by Master of the Munich Marian Panels

Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome

Master of the Munich Marian Panels · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche-shaped plaque with the names of Apries

Cartouche-shaped plaque with the names of Apries

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Mirror clock, by Master CR

Mirror clock

Master CR · ca. 1565–70

Public domainThe Met
Sealing from a Jar with the Name of a king Amenhotep

Sealing from a Jar with the Name of a king Amenhotep

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

Public domainThe Met
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova · 1804–6

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. 2100 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. 7467659 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 23:24 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.