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 “Inlay, ankh with was scepters” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 00:09 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.
Inlay, ankh with was scepters

Inlay, ankh with was scepters

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tsuba

Tsuba

Artist not stated in the record · 1595–1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay, ankh with was scepters

Inlay, ankh with was scepters

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay, ankh, was scepters

Inlay, ankh, was scepters

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tsuba

Tsuba

Artist not stated in the record · 1596–1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, ankh and was scepters

Inlay fragment, ankh and was scepters

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern. Mended with lacquer

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern. Mended with lacquer

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters

Amulet with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scepter for Papal Ceremonies

Scepter for Papal Ceremonies

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters

Amulet with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters

Amulet with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay plate, with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay plate, with a floral design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ankh, djed, was on neb basket

Ankh, djed, was on neb basket

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with a Hieroglyphic Motif

Scarab Inscribed with a Hieroglyphic Motif

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava

The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with the Annunciation

Relief with the Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paris, by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Paris

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

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. 42 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. 428997 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-30 00:09 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.