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 “Fragmentary Head of a King” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:30 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.
Fragmentary Head of a King

Fragmentary Head of a King

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Face of King Khafre

Fragmentary Face of King Khafre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2520–2494 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stipa occidentalis Thurb. ex S. Watson in C. King

Stipa occidentalis Thurb. ex S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of King David

Head of King David

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Public domainThe Met
Stipa occidentalis Thurb. ex S. Watson in C. King

Stipa occidentalis Thurb. ex S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Kourt King croquet game set mallets from Rock Rest Tourist Home

Kourt King croquet game set mallets from Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of King Seti II Wearing the Blue Crown

Head of King Seti II Wearing the Blue Crown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with the Head of Amenhotep I

Relief with the Head of Amenhotep I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Salome given the Head of John the Baptist [left]; Salome offers the Head of John the Baptist to her Parents [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Salome given the Head of John the Baptist [left]; Salome offers the Head of John the Baptist to her Parents [right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Ahmose I

Head of Ahmose I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Kourt King croquet game set stakes from Rock Rest Tourist Home

Kourt King croquet game set stakes from Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Kourt King croquet game set caddy from Rock Rest Tourist Home

Kourt King croquet game set caddy from Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King, by Nicola Ingaldi

King

Nicola Ingaldi · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Eremochloa kingii S. Watson in C. King

Eremochloa kingii S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · May 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Senwosret III as a Sphinx

Senwosret III as a Sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1840 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Acourtia wrightii (A. Gray) Reveal & R.M. King

Acourtia wrightii (A. Gray) Reveal & R.M. King

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of a kneeling Kushite king

Statue of a kneeling Kushite king

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Juncus subcaudatus (Engelm. ex A. Gray) Coville & S.F. Blake

Juncus subcaudatus (Engelm. ex A. Gray) Coville & S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1941

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. 1720 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. 3895881 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-28 16:30 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.