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 “Gold leaf from shabti of Neferseneb” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 15:26 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.
Gold leaf from shabti of Neferseneb

Gold leaf from shabti of Neferseneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Lion and Hare Composed of Ornamental Leaf-Work, from Neue-ersonnene Gold-Schmieds Grillen (New Designs for Ornaments in Gold), by Wolfgang Hieronymus Von Bömmel, German, active ca. 1660 – 1700

Lion and Hare Composed of Ornamental Leaf-Work, from Neue-ersonnene Gold-Schmieds Grillen (New Designs for Ornaments in Gold)

Wolfgang Hieronymus Von Bömmel, German, active ca. 1660 – 1700 · 1698

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold leaf from shabti of Neferseneb

Gold leaf from shabti of Neferseneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Bodice panel

Bodice panel

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Armor in the Classical Style, by Hallé

Costume Armor in the Classical Style

Hallé · ca. 1788–90

Public domainThe Met
Folding Knife with Gold Plated Silver Handle From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Knife with Gold Plated Silver Handle From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helmet (Sallet)

Helmet (Sallet)

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Carey Bros. W.P. Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded 1882

Frieze

Carey Bros. W.P. Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded 1882 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shabti and Coffin of the King's Son Wahneferhotep

Shabti and Coffin of the King's Son Wahneferhotep

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Lincrusta-Walton, by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904

Lincrusta-Walton

Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1881–1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Buddha

Seated Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster awarded to Lt. Col. Colin L. Powell

Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster awarded to Lt. Col. Colin L. Powell

Artist not stated in the record · August 8, 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée), by Jean-Claude Duplessis

Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée)

Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1761

Public domainThe Met
Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons, by Kano Mitsunobu

Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons

Kano Mitsunobu · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Bible

Bible

Artist not stated in the record · 1477 (printing); 1478 (binding)

Public domainThe Met
Watch, by Pierre Vernede

Watch

Pierre Vernede · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Dagger with Sheath

Dagger with Sheath

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Repeating watch, by Francis Perigal

Repeating watch

Francis Perigal · probably ca. 1770

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. 1114 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. 2968666 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 2026-09-02 15:26 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.