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 a King with a Nemes Headdress” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 05:06 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.
Head of a King with a Nemes Headdress

Head of a King with a Nemes Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Woman's Head in Exotic Headdress

Woman's Head in Exotic Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a King with a Nemes Headdress

Head of a King with a Nemes Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mantle fragment

Mantle fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 400–100 BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a King with a Nemes Headdress

Head of a King with a Nemes Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Red, yellow, blue, and white Madras headdress, by DODY, Guadeloupean, founded 1973

Red, yellow, blue, and white Madras headdress

DODY, Guadeloupean, founded 1973 · 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Senwosret III as a Sphinx

Senwosret III as a Sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1840 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Headdress

Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–early 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
King's Head with Egyptian Headdress but Greek Hair and Features

King's Head with Egyptian Headdress but Greek Hair and Features

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–early 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Head of King David

Head of King David

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Public domainThe Met
Head of a King

Head of a King

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1749 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Head of a King, Possibly Seankhkare Mentuhotep III

Head of a King, Possibly Seankhkare Mentuhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

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
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. 1800 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. 3921477 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 2026-08-29 05:06 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.