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 “Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut Originally in the Temple Sanctuary SE Corner” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:18 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 an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut Originally in the Temple Sanctuary SE Corner

Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut Originally in the Temple Sanctuary SE Corner

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

Public domainThe Met
Monument for an Accademia della Pace, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Monument for an Accademia della Pace

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

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

Public domainThe Met
Hilltop View of Yushima Tenjin Shrine (Yushima Tenji, Sakaue-chobo) No. 117 From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Hiroshi Awatsuji, Japanese, 1929–1995

Hilltop View of Yushima Tenjin Shrine (Yushima Tenji, Sakaue-chobo) No. 117 From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Hiroshi Awatsuji, Japanese, 1929–1995 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head from an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

Head from an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

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

Public domainThe Met
Section of an Ornamental Panel

Section of an Ornamental Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sanctuary Lamp, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

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

Public domainThe Met
Head of the disciple Ananda

Head of the disciple Ananda

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Temple Design and Ornamented Gueridons, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Allegorical Temple Design and Ornamented Gueridons

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head from a Statue of King Amenhotep I

Head from a Statue of King Amenhotep I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar

Design for an Altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–57

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut

The Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sanctuary Lamp, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cornice Block with Relief Depicting the Purification of the Pharaoh

Cornice Block with Relief Depicting the Purification of the Pharaoh

Artist not stated in the record · 41–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Kanasugi Bridge, Shibaura (Kanasugi-bashi Shibaura) From the Series One hunred Views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Kanasugi Bridge, Shibaura (Kanasugi-bashi Shibaura) From the Series One hunred Views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Enrollment Certificate to Poro College for Lucille Brown, by Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s

Enrollment Certificate to Poro College for Lucille Brown

Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · March 19, 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Meditation on the Passion, by Vittore Carpaccio

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Prophet Noble Drew Ali, Founder of Moorish Science Temple of America

Prophet Noble Drew Ali, Founder of Moorish Science Temple of America

Artist not stated in the record · 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Tutankhamun

Head of Tutankhamun

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

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1813

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 · 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. 7483534 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-28 09:18 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.