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 “Corner of a Bandage Inscribed with the Cartouche of Neferure” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:53 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.
Corner of a Bandage Inscribed with the Cartouche of Neferure

Corner of a Bandage Inscribed with the Cartouche of Neferure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
"Blackpool"

"Blackpool"

Artist not stated in the record · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner of a Sheet Inscribed with the Cartouche of Neferure

Corner of a Sheet Inscribed with the Cartouche of Neferure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cupids and Scroll Work, by Unger Brothers, Newark, New Jersey, 1872 – 1919

Cupids and Scroll Work

Unger Brothers, Newark, New Jersey, 1872 – 1919 · ca. 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
"Cairo 93"

"Cairo 93"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"

Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"

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

Public domainThe Met
NOUVEAUX CARTOUCHES CHINOIS, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

NOUVEAUX CARTOUCHES CHINOIS

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mummy Bandage Inscribed for Paherer

Mummy Bandage Inscribed for Paherer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Savoyards

Savoyards

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johann Valentin Gevers

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Coat-of-Arms

Coat-of-Arms

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kohl Jar Inscribed for Hatshepsut as God's Wife

Kohl Jar Inscribed for Hatshepsut as God's Wife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1477 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Title Page

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkstand with Apollo and the Muses, by Patanazzi family

Inkstand with Apollo and the Muses

Patanazzi family · 1584

Public domainThe Met
Charleston slave badge from 1815 for Mechanic No. 56 named Robert Cheevers, by John Joseph Lafar, American, 1784 - 1849

Charleston slave badge from 1815 for Mechanic No. 56 named Robert Cheevers

John Joseph Lafar, American, 1784 - 1849 · 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
"Speak No Evil, See No Evil, Hear No Evil"

"Speak No Evil, See No Evil, Hear No Evil"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Icon with the Crucifixion

Icon with the Crucifixion

Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Ceiling Design

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Block fragment with cartouche of Akhenaten

Block fragment with cartouche of Akhenaten

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

Public domainThe Met
page Three from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Huquier", by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

page Three from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Huquier"

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · after 1751

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. 1061 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 3970034 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-28 08:53 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.