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 “Fragment from the sarcophagus of Usermaatre, son of Djedkhonsuefankh” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 14:06 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 the sarcophagus of Usermaatre, son of Djedkhonsuefankh

Fragment from the sarcophagus of Usermaatre, son of Djedkhonsuefankh

Artist not stated in the record · 360–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Artist not stated in the record · 595–526 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826), by Camillo Gajani, Italian

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)

Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument of the Three Last Stuarts

Sepulchral Monument of the Three Last Stuarts

Artist not stated in the record · 1788–1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Block Statue of a Prophet of Montu and Scribe Djedkhonsuefankh, son of Khonsumes and Taat

Block Statue of a Prophet of Montu and Scribe Djedkhonsuefankh, son of Khonsumes and Taat

Artist not stated in the record · 690–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument, by Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766

Sepulchral Monument

Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766 · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Entombment of Christ

Entombment of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Three Designs for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Three Designs for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of William Duguid, by Prince Demah Barnes

Portrait of William Duguid

Prince Demah Barnes · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Sarcophagus, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sarcophagus

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Monument of King Louis XVI of France, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Monument of King Louis XVI of France

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble sarcophagus fragment: head of a Black African

Marble sarcophagus fragment: head of a Black African

Artist not stated in the record · 1st quarter of the 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Roman Sarcophagus, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Roman Sarcophagus

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1868 - April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Bartholomew and Simon, by Master of Saint Francis

Saints Bartholomew and Simon

Master of Saint Francis · ca. 1272

Public domainThe Met
Stuart Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stuart Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil

Chamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Salix safsaf Forssk.

Salix safsaf Forssk.

Artist not stated in the record · 189

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Magi

Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Four Designs for Sepulchral Monuments, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Four Designs for Sepulchral Monuments

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

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
Design for a Sarcophagus, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Sarcophagus

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

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. 371 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. 3083636 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 14:06 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.