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 “Funerary Cone of a Scribe of the Offering Table and Butler Named Nebamun.” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:38 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.
Funerary Cone of a Scribe of the Offering Table and Butler Named Nebamun.

Funerary Cone of a Scribe of the Offering Table and Butler Named Nebamun.

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Serving Vessel, Les Glaces (Ice Cream) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Serving Vessel, Les Glaces (Ice Cream) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of Djehutynefer

Funerary Cone of Djehutynefer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, basket

Wire frame, basket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 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
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun

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

Public domainThe Met
Table Design with Vases, by Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716

Table Design with Vases

Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenhotep

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenhotep

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Ku-Klux Spirit in Congress / Geneva Award

The Ku-Klux Spirit in Congress / Geneva Award

Artist not stated in the record · 1871 and 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenhotep

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenhotep

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Offering to Cupid

Offering to Cupid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef

Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
A genre scene, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

A genre scene

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1725–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe of the Treasury Senu

Funerary Cone of the Scribe of the Treasury Senu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall and border

Sidewall and border

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, flat basket

Wire frame, flat basket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Commemorative head, by Akan artist

Commemorative head

Akan artist · Late 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, wreath on stand

Wire frame, wreath on stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

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. 79 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. 7474391 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 2026-08-27 22:38 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.