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 “Floral Collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:28 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.
Floral Collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Floral Collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Black double tiered floral applique cape, by Unidentified

Black double tiered floral applique cape

Unidentified · 1900 - 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Floral collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Black pigeon breast bodice with cording applique, by Unidentified

Black pigeon breast bodice with cording applique

Unidentified · 1900s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Floral collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Collar

Collar

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water Bottle from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Water Bottle from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Collar

Collar

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Seal Impression from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Fragmentary Seal Impression from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Emancipation Era dress worn by formerly enslaved woman Tempy Ruby Bryant, by Tempy Ruby Bryant, American, born ca. 1848

Emancipation Era dress worn by formerly enslaved woman Tempy Ruby Bryant

Tempy Ruby Bryant, American, born ca. 1848 · 1870-1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Storage Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Large Storage Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cotton blouse with lace and floral embroidery, by Unidentified

Cotton blouse with lace and floral embroidery

Unidentified · ca.1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Storage Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Storage Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kerchief from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Kerchief from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Collar

Collar

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kerchief from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Kerchief from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Collar

Collar

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painted Bowl from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Painted Bowl from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Collar

Collar

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Linen from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Linen from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wedding dress with beaded lace bodice, by Bill Washington, American

Wedding dress with beaded lace bodice

Bill Washington, American · 1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed Linen Sheet from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Inscribed Linen Sheet from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Collar

Collar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

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. 52 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 425121 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 07:28 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.