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 figure of Qebehsenuef” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:30 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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 figure of Qebehsenuef

Funerary figure of Qebehsenuef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Funerary Monument

Design for a Funerary Monument

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Figure of Qebehsenuef

Funerary Figure of Qebehsenuef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fitzgerald Monument--Funerary Urn, by William Henry Rinehart, born Union Bridge, MD 1825-died Rome, Italy 1874

Fitzgerald Monument--Funerary Urn

William Henry Rinehart, born Union Bridge, MD 1825-died Rome, Italy 1874 · modeled 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure

Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1831

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar, Qebehsenuef

Canopic Jar, Qebehsenuef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Funerary Monument Designs, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Two Funerary Monument Designs

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Figure of Akhenaten

Funerary Figure of Akhenaten

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Funerary Monument Designs, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Two Funerary Monument Designs

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guardian Figure

Guardian Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1885 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Funerary tile

Funerary tile

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE-100 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble funerary lekythos

Marble funerary lekythos

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 375–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Female figure, by Inland Niger Delta Style

Female figure

Inland Niger Delta Style · 10th-15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary amulet depicting one of the Four Sons of Horus, Qebehsenuef

Funerary amulet depicting one of the Four Sons of Horus, Qebehsenuef

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Monument Designs, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Monument Designs

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Artist not stated in the record · 595–526 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1450

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smiling figure (Sonriente), by South central Veracruz artist(s)

Smiling figure (Sonriente)

South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1450

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Figure of Isis, Singer of the Aten

Funerary Figure of Isis, Singer of the Aten

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Funerary model of a twin-towered gate

Funerary model of a twin-towered gate

Artist not stated in the record · 50 BCE-50 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta funerary plaque

Terracotta funerary plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 520–510 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Royal Catafalque, by Luca Arinelli, Italian, active 1770

Elevation of a Royal Catafalque

Luca Arinelli, Italian, active 1770 · late 18th century

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. 995 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2863488 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 06:30 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.