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 the Corner of a Canopic Chest” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:53 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 the Corner of a Canopic Chest

Fragment of the Corner of a Canopic Chest

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1208–1202 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing project: the elevation of a chest

Drawing project: the elevation of a chest

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Chest of Senbi

Canopic Chest of Senbi

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1878 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for Fountain with Canopic Jar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Fountain with Canopic Jar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Corner of Siptah's Canopic Chest

Fragment of a Corner of Siptah's Canopic Chest

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1208–1202 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chest of Drawers

Design for a Chest of Drawers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of the Canopic Chest of Siptah

Fragment of the Canopic Chest of Siptah

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1208–1202 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Console Table and Chest of Drawers, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Console Table and Chest of Drawers

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of the Upper Right Corner of One Side of Siptah's Canopic Box

Fragment of the Upper Right Corner of One Side of Siptah's Canopic Box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1208–1202 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chest protector

Chest protector

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of the Lower Left Corner of one side of Siptah's Canopic Chest

Fragment of the Lower Left Corner of one side of Siptah's Canopic Chest

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1208–1202 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chest, by Unknown

Chest

Unknown · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Queen's Face

Fragment of a Queen's Face

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Miniature Chest of Drawers containing Plaster Seal Impressions

Miniature Chest of Drawers containing Plaster Seal Impressions

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic chest

Canopic chest

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE–364 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Chest Lid Fragment

Canopic Chest Lid Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1208–1202 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Chests of Drawers, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for Two Chests of Drawers

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Chest Lid Fragment

Canopic Chest Lid Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1208–1202 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Recruitment poster featuring Navy Cross recipient Dorie Miller

Recruitment poster featuring Navy Cross recipient Dorie Miller

Artist not stated in the record · 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Chest Lid Fragment

Canopic Chest Lid Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1208–1202 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of an unidentified man

Photograph of an unidentified man

Artist not stated in the record · 1917-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Chest Lid Fragment

Canopic Chest Lid Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1208–1202 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of Entablature in the Classical Style, by Unknown, Italian

Fragment of Entablature in the Classical Style

Unknown, Italian · ca. 1770–90

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. 740 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. 3956477 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-27 06:53 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.