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 Representing the Cartouche of Seti II” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 16:48 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 Representing the Cartouche of Seti II

Inlay Representing the Cartouche of Seti II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab of Seti II

Scarab of Seti II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche Representing Architecture, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for a Cartouche Representing Architecture

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall Tile with the Cartouche of Seti II

Wall Tile with the Cartouche of Seti II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche Representing the Continent of Africa, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for a Cartouche Representing the Continent of Africa

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a votive tile with cartouche of Seti II

Fragment of a votive tile with cartouche of Seti II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche Representing the Garden, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for a Cartouche Representing the Garden

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque inlaid with Cartouche of Seti II

Plaque inlaid with Cartouche of Seti II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche Representing the Continent of Asia, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for a Cartouche Representing the Continent of Asia

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay of the Horus falcon on the hieroglyph for "gold"

Inlay of the Horus falcon on the hieroglyph for "gold"

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche Representing the Liberal Arts, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for a Cartouche Representing the Liberal Arts

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

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

The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche Representing the Continent of America, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for a Cartouche Representing the Continent of America

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile Inlay of a Torso

Tile Inlay of a Torso

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche Representing the Country of China, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for a Cartouche Representing the Country of China

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile Inlay depicting a Wig

Tile Inlay depicting a Wig

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Silver label for rum decanter

Silver label for rum decanter

Artist not stated in the record · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile Inlay Depicting a Torso

Tile Inlay Depicting a Torso

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Cartouche Designs, by Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692

Four Cartouche Designs

Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of tile

Fragment of tile

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

Public domainThe Met
L'Ouie, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

L'Ouie

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile Inlay from the Palace of Ramesses II, Captives of Non-Semitic Northern Peoples

Tile Inlay from the Palace of Ramesses II, Captives of Non-Semitic Northern Peoples

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
La Vüe, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

La Vüe

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

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. 187 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. 2995832 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-04 16:48 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.