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. 12 shown for “Earring with ram crowned by disk and 'uraei'” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 13:57 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Earring with ram crowned by disk and 'uraei'

Earring with ram crowned by disk and 'uraei'

Artist not stated in the record · perhaps 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Statue of a kneeling Kushite king

Statue of a kneeling Kushite king

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

Public domainThe Met
Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers

Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers

Artist not stated in the record · 664–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Faience amulet of a ram's head with sun disk crown

Faience amulet of a ram's head with sun disk crown

Artist not stated in the record · 664–334 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scarab with Sobek and Wadjet

Scarab with Sobek and Wadjet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of gold earrings with an Egyptian Atef crown set with stones and glass

Pair of gold earrings with an Egyptian Atef crown set with stones and glass

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vulture head and double uraei with disk and horn crowns, from statue of a goddess

Vulture head and double uraei with disk and horn crowns, from statue of a goddess

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ram-headed Scaraboid Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Amun (Amun-Re)

Ram-headed Scaraboid Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Amun (Amun-Re)

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

Public domainThe Met
Tile with seated Tatenen (or Ptah-Tatenen)

Tile with seated Tatenen (or Ptah-Tatenen)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Block with cartouche of Alexander the Great or his son Alexander IV of Macedon

Block with cartouche of Alexander the Great or his son Alexander IV of Macedon

Artist not stated in the record · 332–305 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Attachment for the crown of an Osiris statue

Attachment for the crown of an Osiris statue

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Statuette of Osiris with the epithets Neb Ankh and Khentyimentiu, donated by Padihorpare

Statuette of Osiris with the epithets Neb Ankh and Khentyimentiu, donated by Padihorpare

Artist not stated in the record · 589–526 BCE

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. 35 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 13:57 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.