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 “Heqanakht Account VI” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:54 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.
Heqanakht Account VI

Heqanakht Account VI

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for Tablet, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for Tablet

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1740–58

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heqanakht Letter I

Heqanakht Letter I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833)

Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833)

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heqanakht Account VII

Heqanakht Account VII

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Achillea abrotanoides (Vis.) Vis.

Achillea abrotanoides (Vis.) Vis.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 7/8/68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heqanakht Letter V

Heqanakht Letter V

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Achillea abrotanoides (Vis.) Vis.

Achillea abrotanoides (Vis.) Vis.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1933 to 19 Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heqanakht Papyrus Fragments

Heqanakht Papyrus Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Lactuca pancicii (Vis.) N. Kilian & Greuter

Lactuca pancicii (Vis.) N. Kilian & Greuter

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jun 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heqanakht Letter (III) to Merisu

Heqanakht Letter (III) to Merisu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Amphoricarpos neumayerianus (Vis.) Greuter

Amphoricarpos neumayerianus (Vis.) Greuter

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Papyrus of Sitnebsekhtu, Heqanakht Letter IV

Papyrus of Sitnebsekhtu, Heqanakht Letter IV

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Lactuca aurea (Stebbins) Sch. Bip. ex Vis. & Pančić

Lactuca aurea (Stebbins) Sch. Bip. ex Vis. & Pančić

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sealing with Scarab Impressions from Heqanakht's Letters

Sealing with Scarab Impressions from Heqanakht's Letters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1956–1953 B.C

Public domainThe Met
Lactuca pancicii (Vis.) N. Kilian & Greuter

Lactuca pancicii (Vis.) N. Kilian & Greuter

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heqanahkt Letter II

Heqanahkt Letter II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Henry VI, King of England and France, by Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625

Henry VI, King of England and France

Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625 · 1618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heqanakht's account, written over an effaced letter regarding two female servants

Heqanakht's account, written over an effaced letter regarding two female servants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1956–1953 B.C

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Pius VI (1717-1799)

Portrait of Pius VI (1717-1799)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Portulaca halimoides L.

Portulaca halimoides L.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Nov 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joshua and David (from the Heroes Tapestries)

Joshua and David (from the Heroes Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Public domainThe Met
Vis à vis, by Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century

Vis à vis

Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

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. 107 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 5573 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-27 00:54 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.