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 “Inscribed and decorated fragments of a connective element, Nefertiti names” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:03 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.
Inscribed and decorated fragments of a connective element, Nefertiti names

Inscribed and decorated fragments of a connective element, Nefertiti names

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hypocrite and a Slanderer, by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

A Hypocrite and a Slanderer

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt · ca. 1770–83

Public domainThe Met
Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed fragment of a support pillar, Akhenaten, Nefetiti, Aten cartouches

Inscribed fragment of a support pillar, Akhenaten, Nefetiti, Aten cartouches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Embroidered Frontal, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for an Embroidered Frontal

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Decorations

Ceiling Decorations

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs

Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Five Ceiling Schemes, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Five Ceiling Schemes

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1815–23

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and a little girl

Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and a little girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Multiplex, by Hammond

Multiplex

Hammond · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment From Decorated Bowl

Fragment From Decorated Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Pietro Tamburini (Petrus Tamburinus)

Portrait of Pietro Tamburini (Petrus Tamburinus)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup), by Douris

Fragment of a terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Douris · ca. 490 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura)

Madonna and Child

Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura) · ca. 1505–7

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
Tunic fragment

Tunic fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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. 929 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. 7474437 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 2026-08-29 02:03 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.