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. 17 shown for “Germinating Osiris Brick” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:06 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.
Germinating Osiris Brick

Germinating Osiris Brick

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Figure of Osiris, by Unidentified

Figure of Osiris

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Falcon-headed coffin and grain mummy with Osiris mask

Falcon-headed coffin and grain mummy with Osiris mask

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Nectarinia mariquensis osiris

Nectarinia mariquensis osiris

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffin and corn mummy with Osiris mask

Coffin and corn mummy with Osiris mask

Artist not stated in the record · 380–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Min

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Min

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Nectarinia mariquensis osiris

Nectarinia mariquensis osiris

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Falcon-form case containing a corn mummy

Falcon-form case containing a corn mummy

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Adoration of the Magi, by Hieronymus Bosch

The Adoration of the Magi

Hieronymus Bosch · ca. 1475

Public domainThe Met
Funerary stela of Thutirtis, born of Kerbet (?)

Funerary stela of Thutirtis, born of Kerbet (?)

Artist not stated in the record · 350–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Nectarinia mariquensis osiris

Nectarinia mariquensis osiris

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Nov 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Reliefs from a Chapel of Ramesses I

Reliefs from a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Nectarinia mariquensis osiris

Nectarinia mariquensis osiris

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jan 1905

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. 29 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 2323 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-06 02:06 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.