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. 23 shown for “Foundation Deposit Mat” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 08:58 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.
Foundation Deposit Mat

Foundation Deposit Mat

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

Public domainThe Met
Samples from Malmaison, by Augustin François André Picot, French

Samples from Malmaison

Augustin François André Picot, French · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit

Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit

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

Public domainThe Met
Table mat

Table mat

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mat From Foundation Deposit C, Hatshepsut's Temple

Mat From Foundation Deposit C, Hatshepsut's Temple

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

Public domainThe Met
Table mat

Table mat

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grass mat

Grass mat

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

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bundle of Model Mats from the Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Tomb

Bundle of Model Mats from the Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Tomb

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

Public domainThe Met
Studies after Lunettes by, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Studies after Lunettes by

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpenter's Adze from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Carpenter's Adze from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

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

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation Deposit Plaque

Foundation Deposit Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation Deposit Plaque

Foundation Deposit Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Virtue Paying Homage at the Tomb of Washington

Virtue Paying Homage at the Tomb of Washington

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation Deposit Plaque

Foundation Deposit Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chased Silver Medallion, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543

Chased Silver Medallion

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation Deposit Plaque

Foundation Deposit Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chased Silver Medallion, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543

Chased Silver Medallion

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation Deposit Plaque

Foundation Deposit Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chased Silver Medallion, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543

Chased Silver Medallion

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation Deposit Plaque

Foundation Deposit Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 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. 724 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. 20696 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 08:58 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.