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 “Foundation plaque inscribed with the cartouche of Psusennes I” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:24 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 plaque inscribed with the cartouche of Psusennes I

Foundation plaque inscribed with the cartouche of Psusennes I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1051–1002 BCE

Public domainThe Met
"Blackpool"

"Blackpool"

Artist not stated in the record · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation plaque inscribed with the cartouche of Psusennes I

Foundation plaque inscribed with the cartouche of Psusennes I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1051–1002 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
Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

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
Plaque Inscribed with the Cartouche of Amenemhat I

Plaque Inscribed with the Cartouche of Amenemhat I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Savoyards

Savoyards

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

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

Title Page

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shabti of Psusennes I

Shabti of Psusennes I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1051–1002 BCE

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

Title Page

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation deposit plaque of Amenemhat I

Foundation deposit plaque of Amenemhat I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 B.C.

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
Foundation deposit plaque of Amenemhat I

Foundation deposit plaque of Amenemhat I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 B.C.

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

Title Page

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation deposit plaque of Amenemhat I

Foundation deposit plaque of Amenemhat I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 B.C.

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
Foundation Deposit Plaque

Foundation Deposit Plaque

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

Public domainThe Met
L’ASTRONOMIE / LA GÉOGRAPHIE

L’ASTRONOMIE / LA GÉOGRAPHIE

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calligraphic Plaque

Calligraphic Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · probably late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Le Printemps, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Le Printemps

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

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
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1818

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. 765 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. 3097942 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-04 23:24 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.