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 “Brick of the Scribe Nebamun” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:33 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.
Brick of the Scribe Nebamun

Brick of the Scribe Nebamun

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

Public domainThe Met
Scribe Set

Scribe Set

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun

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

Public domainThe Met
Carpenter's scribe

Carpenter's scribe

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun

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

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of a Scribe of the Offering Table and Butler Named Nebamun.

Funerary Cone of a Scribe of the Offering Table and Butler Named Nebamun.

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

Public domainThe Met
Building brick from Spelman College's Upton Hall, by Unidentified

Building brick from Spelman College's Upton Hall

Unidentified · ca. 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenhotep

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenhotep

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

Public domainThe Met
Building brick from Bethune-Cookman University's White Hall, by Unidentified

Building brick from Bethune-Cookman University's White Hall

Unidentified · ca. 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe of the Treasury Senu

Funerary Cone of the Scribe of the Treasury Senu

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company, by Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s

Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company

Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s · ca. 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Kanakht

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Kanakht

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

Public domainThe Met
Brick from the Waterside Mall development in Southwest neighborhood of Washington, DC

Brick from the Waterside Mall development in Southwest neighborhood of Washington, DC

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Sennetjer

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Sennetjer

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

Public domainThe Met
Brick from a cistern found at Florida A&M University, by Unidentified

Brick from a cistern found at Florida A&M University

Unidentified · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe User

Funerary Cone of the Scribe User

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Building brick from the White House, by Jeremiah Kale, American, active late 18th century

Building brick from the White House

Jeremiah Kale, American, active late 18th century · 1793-1797; removed 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Aanen

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Aanen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Brick from the Chattahoochee Brick Company, by Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s

Brick from the Chattahoochee Brick Company

Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s · late 19th century - early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenhotep

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenhotep

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

Public domainThe Met
Bag containing a piece of brick from Fort Sumter owned by Marquis Peterson

Bag containing a piece of brick from Fort Sumter owned by Marquis Peterson

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Min

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Min

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Bank of Vernal brick

The Bank of Vernal brick

Artist not stated in the record · 1916

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. 37 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2982728 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 2026-08-27 22:33 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.