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. 15 shown for “Head of Amun” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:10 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.
Head of the god Amun

Head of the god Amun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Avenella flexuosa (L.) Drejer

Avenella flexuosa (L.) Drejer

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 21/7/23

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Amun

Head of Amun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Facial Expressions, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Facial Expressions

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Amun with inlaid eyes

Head of Amun with inlaid eyes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–721 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Anatomical Sketches of Heads, Faces, and the Ear, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of Heads, Faces, and the Ear

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amun

Amun

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Amun

Amun

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head, by Temne or Bullom artist(s)

Head

Temne or Bullom artist(s) · 12th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Statue of Kneeling Captive

Statue of Kneeling Captive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of King Seti II Wearing the Blue Crown

Head of King Seti II Wearing the Blue Crown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Buddha

Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

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

Public domainThe Met
Head of Tutankhamun

Head of Tutankhamun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 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. 33875 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2880856 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 23:10 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.