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 of a Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:00 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 of a Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Fragment of a Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Ring of Ruiu

Scarab Ring of Ruiu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1811

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
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
L’HISTOIRE, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

L’HISTOIRE

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1670 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for Overmantel; recto, Plans of Moldings, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for Overmantel; recto, Plans of Moldings

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Jeremiah Draper's Book

Jeremiah Draper's Book

Artist not stated in the record · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragments in Forum, Rome, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Fragments in Forum, Rome

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Apotheosis of Franklin

Apotheosis of Franklin

Artist not stated in the record · 1780s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1670 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Apotheosis of Franklin

Apotheosis of Franklin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1670 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Apotheosis of Franklin

Apotheosis of Franklin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

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. 1266 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3887775 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-29 07:00 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.