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. 21 shown for “Fragment from scene of Queen Neferu having her hair done - see 26.3.353-5” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:30 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.
Fragment from scene of Queen Neferu having her hair done - see 26.3.353-5

Fragment from scene of Queen Neferu having her hair done - see 26.3.353-5

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Una and the Lion, from Spenser's "Faerie Queen"

Una and the Lion, from Spenser's "Faerie Queen"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief of Queen Neferu having her hair done

Relief of Queen Neferu having her hair done

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763

Textile

Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763 · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief fragments from an elaborate false doorway

Relief fragments from an elaborate false doorway

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Eijiri, from the series, "The Highest Ranking Geisha's Journey", by Keisei Eisen, Japanese, 1790 – 1848

Eijiri, from the series, "The Highest Ranking Geisha's Journey"

Keisei Eisen, Japanese, 1790 – 1848 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief scene from the tomb of Queen Neferu: fragments from two registers showing male and female attendants moving to the right

Relief scene from the tomb of Queen Neferu: fragments from two registers showing male and female attendants moving to the right

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1737

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief fragments from the tomb of Neferu showing richly adorned attendants moving right to left

Relief fragments from the tomb of Neferu showing richly adorned attendants moving right to left

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Magazine clipping advertising The Plantation Club, NYC

Magazine clipping advertising The Plantation Club, NYC

Artist not stated in the record · May 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Mariko, from the series, "The Highest Ranking Geisha's Journey", by Keisei Eisen, Japanese, 1790 – 1848

Mariko, from the series, "The Highest Ranking Geisha's Journey"

Keisei Eisen, Japanese, 1790 – 1848 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flagellation, by Master of the Berswordt Altar

The Flagellation

Master of the Berswordt Altar · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
Sampler fragments

Sampler fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Jeanne d'Arc, by Charles Abraham Chasselat, French, 1782–1843

Jeanne d'Arc

Charles Abraham Chasselat, French, 1782–1843 · 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Master of the Berswordt Altar

The Crucifixion

Master of the Berswordt Altar · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene from a Novella, by Liberale da Verona

Scene from a Novella

Liberale da Verona

Public domainThe Met
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

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. 60 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. 2983446 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 12:30 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.