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 “Block statue of Hor” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:21 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.
Block statue of Hor

Block statue of Hor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mt. Hor from Arabah, Palestine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mt. Hor from Arabah, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 22, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Block statue of Mersuptah

Block statue of Mersuptah

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–721 BCE or earlier

Public domainThe Met
Near Mt. Hor, Syria (Jordan), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Near Mt. Hor, Syria (Jordan)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 23, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Block Statue of Nedjem

Block Statue of Nedjem

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1197–1166 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mt. Hor, Jordan, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mt. Hor, Jordan

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 23, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Block statue of Minhotep

Block statue of Minhotep

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Approaching Mt. Hor, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Approaching Mt. Hor

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 23, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Naophorous Block Statue of a Governor of Sais, Psamtikseneb

Naophorous Block Statue of a Governor of Sais, Psamtikseneb

Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
L’Entrée de la Vigne du Prince Pamphile hors la porte de St. Pancrace a Rome, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

L’Entrée de la Vigne du Prince Pamphile hors la porte de St. Pancrace a Rome

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Block Statue of a Prophet of Montu and Scribe Djedkhonsuefankh, son of Khonsumes and Taat

Block Statue of a Prophet of Montu and Scribe Djedkhonsuefankh, son of Khonsumes and Taat

Artist not stated in the record · 690–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mixed Studies near Mt. Hor, Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mixed Studies near Mt. Hor, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Horus as a falcon protecting King Nectanebo II

Statue of Horus as a falcon protecting King Nectanebo II

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tray for Hors D'oeuvres, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Tray for Hors D'oeuvres

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1827–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Block Statue of Porter Amenemhat

Block Statue of Porter Amenemhat

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Menu for AGIP restaurant in Rome

Menu for AGIP restaurant in Rome

Artist not stated in the record · 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Block Statue of the God's Father Pameniuwedja, son of Nesmin and Nestefnut

Block Statue of the God's Father Pameniuwedja, son of Nesmin and Nestefnut

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Polystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott

Polystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bes-image of the god Hor-Asha-Khet

Bes-image of the god Hor-Asha-Khet

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris campyloptera Clarkson

Dryopteris campyloptera Clarkson

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1282

Public domainThe Met
Phegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fée

Phegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fée

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head from an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

Head from an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Valley of El Arabah, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Valley of El Arabah, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 21, 1868

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. 151 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2980412 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 23:21 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.