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 “Ile de Philae” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 00:33 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.
Mantelpiece from the château at Omerville

Mantelpiece from the château at Omerville

Artist not stated in the record · 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Ile de Philae

Ile de Philae

Artist not stated in the record · 1818–1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ruines et Village de Begueh, petite île à l'Ouest de Philae, by Maxime Du Camp

Ruines et Village de Begueh, petite île à l'Ouest de Philae

Maxime Du Camp · April 11, 1850

Public domainThe Met
Myriophyllum sibiricum Kom.

Myriophyllum sibiricum Kom.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dresser (Dressoir aux harpies)

Dresser (Dressoir aux harpies)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–90, and 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Drosera intermedia Hayne

Drosera intermedia Hayne

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shopfront from 3, quai de Bourbon, Île Saint-Louis, Paris, by Etienne Séjournant

Shopfront from 3, quai de Bourbon, Île Saint-Louis, Paris

Etienne Séjournant · between 1775–77, with later replacements

Public domainThe Met
Tomb Effigy Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Evreux, by Jean de Liège

Tomb Effigy Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Evreux

Jean de Liège · ca. 1381

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–50

Public domainThe Met
Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47

Public domainThe Met
The Nativity

The Nativity

Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Canopy from the tomb of Philip III (the Bold) of France (1245-1285), by Jean d'Arras

Canopy from the tomb of Philip III (the Bold) of France (1245-1285)

Jean d'Arras · 1297–1307

Public domainThe Met
Vue générale de l'île de Philae, prise de la pointe Sud de l'île de Begueh, by Maxime Du Camp

Vue générale de l'île de Philae, prise de la pointe Sud de l'île de Begueh

Maxime Du Camp · April 14, 1850

Public domainThe Met
Vue générale de l'île de Philae, prise de l'île de Begueh (Ouest), by Maxime Du Camp

Vue générale de l'île de Philae, prise de l'île de Begueh (Ouest)

Maxime Du Camp · 1849–50

Public domainThe Met
Ile de Fîleh (Philæ), Édifice de l'Est - Face Latérale Vue du Point D, by Félix Teynard

Ile de Fîleh (Philæ), Édifice de l'Est - Face Latérale Vue du Point D

Félix Teynard · 1851–52, printed 1853–54

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. 622 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. 621768 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 2026-09-04 00:33 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.