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. 20 shown for “Hieratic ostracon with accounts” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:13 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.
Hieratic Ostracon with accounts

Hieratic Ostracon with accounts

Artist not stated in the record · 525–404 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Studies and Accounting

Architectural Studies and Accounting

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hieratic ostracon with accounts

Hieratic ostracon with accounts

Artist not stated in the record · 525–404 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Window Case, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Design for a Window Case

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hieratic ostracon with account

Hieratic ostracon with account

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
List of payments to Apphia Rouzee in account with John Rouzee

List of payments to Apphia Rouzee in account with John Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · 1811-1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon

Ostracon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Accounting record for the Rouzee family with notes on hires of enslaved persons

Accounting record for the Rouzee family with notes on hires of enslaved persons

Artist not stated in the record · 1810-1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon

Ostracon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing: A) Two men carrying a trunk; four mules with a driver. B) Project for a frame

Drawing: A) Two men carrying a trunk; four mules with a driver. B) Project for a frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon with hieratic inscription

Ostracon with hieratic inscription

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Quarterly post office account

Quarterly post office account

Artist not stated in the record · 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon with hieratic inscription

Ostracon with hieratic inscription

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Letter

Letter

Artist not stated in the record · August 9, 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon with hieratic inscription

Ostracon with hieratic inscription

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Postal account assessment document

Postal account assessment document

Artist not stated in the record · September 12, 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon with hieratic inscription

Ostracon with hieratic inscription

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ostracon with hieratic inscription

Ostracon with hieratic inscription

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ostracon with hieratic inscription

Ostracon with hieratic inscription

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hieratic Ostracon

Hieratic Ostracon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 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. 72 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. 249688 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 06:13 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.