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. 18 shown for “Funerary Cone of the Steward of the King Tjata” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:49 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 the Steward of the King Tjata

Funerary Cone of the Steward of the King Tjata

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

Public domainThe Met
Horn speaker used as part of a DJ setup

Horn speaker used as part of a DJ setup

Artist not stated in the record · 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cone

Cone

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

Public domainThe Met
Horn speaker used as part of a DJ setup

Horn speaker used as part of a DJ setup

Artist not stated in the record · 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Chief Steward of the King Meryre

Funerary Cone of the Chief Steward of the King Meryre

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

Public domainThe Met
Orthocarpus imbricatus Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King

Orthocarpus imbricatus Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1957

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
Designs for Woven Paisley

Designs for Woven Paisley

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser

Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Tweeter speakers used as part of a DJ setup

Tweeter speakers used as part of a DJ setup

Artist not stated in the record · 1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Steward Khonsu

Funerary Cone of the Steward Khonsu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1347 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
Funerary Cone of the Festival Leader of Amun Tjata

Funerary Cone of the Festival Leader of Amun Tjata

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

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Cone of the Steward Pentjebu

Funerary Cone of the Steward Pentjebu

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

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Cone of the Steward Hery

Funerary Cone of the Steward Hery

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

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Cone of the Steward Padihorresnet

Funerary Cone of the Steward Padihorresnet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Cone

Funerary Cone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Cone of the Steward Khonsu

Funerary Cone of the Steward Khonsu

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

Public domainThe Met
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. 849 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. 3017472 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 11:49 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.