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 “Canopic Jar with an Image Representing the Hieroglyph for Face” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 09:33 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.
Canopic Jar with an Image Representing the Hieroglyph for Face

Canopic Jar with an Image Representing the Hieroglyph for Face

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Fountain with Canopic Jar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Fountain with Canopic Jar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Public domainThe Met
LA MÉDECINE, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

LA MÉDECINE

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century

Public domainThe Met
LA MÉDECINE, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

LA MÉDECINE

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay of the Horus falcon on the hieroglyph for "gold"

Inlay of the Horus falcon on the hieroglyph for "gold"

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
L’HISTOIRE, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

L’HISTOIRE

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Artist not stated in the record · 595–526 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain in a Park, by De Crenice, French

Design for a Fountain in a Park

De Crenice, French · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar (with lid 30.8.54)

Canopic Jar (with lid 30.8.54)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Chimneypiece, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Queen's Face

Fragment of a Queen's Face

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tsuba

Tsuba

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief plaque with face of an owl hieroglyph

Relief plaque with face of an owl hieroglyph

Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Clock, by Unknown

Design for Clock

Unknown · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scaraboid with an image of Hathor

Scaraboid with an image of Hathor

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

Public domainThe Met
Dish with the Four Continents

Dish with the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar of Ruiu

Canopic Jar of Ruiu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tsuba, by Kawaji Tomotomi, Japanese, 1754

Tsuba

Kawaji Tomotomi, Japanese, 1754 · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar of Ruiu

Canopic Jar of Ruiu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tsuba

Tsuba

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar of Maruta

Canopic Jar of Maruta

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

Public domainThe Met
Egyptian Artifact

Egyptian Artifact

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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. 623 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 7484731 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-29 09:33 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.