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 corner, Akhenaten prenomen on one surface, Aten cartouche on other” — 56 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:37 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 corner, Akhenaten prenomen on one surface, Aten cartouche on other

Inscribed corner, Akhenaten prenomen on one surface, Aten cartouche on other

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

Public domainThe Met
"Blackpool"

"Blackpool"

Artist not stated in the record · 1900–10

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
Coat-of-Arms

Coat-of-Arms

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermaphrodite, by Giovanni Francesco Susini

Hermaphrodite

Giovanni Francesco Susini · 1639

Public domainThe Met
"Speak No Evil, See No Evil, Hear No Evil"

"Speak No Evil, See No Evil, Hear No Evil"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cupids and Scroll Work, by Unger Brothers, Newark, New Jersey, 1872 – 1919

Cupids and Scroll Work

Unger Brothers, Newark, New Jersey, 1872 – 1919 · ca. 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Quinten Massys

The Adoration of the Magi

Quinten Massys · 1526

Public domainThe Met
Savoyards

Savoyards

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Cupid, by Lorenzo Lotto

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Public domainThe Met
Hampton Aten & Co. Commission Merchants, by unknown

Hampton Aten & Co. Commission Merchants

unknown · 1859 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robert Rich (1587–1658), Second Earl of Warwick, by Anthony van Dyck

Robert Rich (1587–1658), Second Earl of Warwick

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1632–35

Public domainThe Met
Charleston slave badge from 1815 for Mechanic No. 56 named Robert Cheevers, by John Joseph Lafar, American, 1784 - 1849

Charleston slave badge from 1815 for Mechanic No. 56 named Robert Cheevers

John Joseph Lafar, American, 1784 - 1849 · 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver coffee pot

George III sterling silver coffee pot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova (1490?–1558), by Giovanni Battista Moroni

Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova (1490?–1558)

Giovanni Battista Moroni · 1557

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Title Page

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The French Comedians, by Antoine Watteau

The French Comedians

Antoine Watteau · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
"Feu"

"Feu"

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Sebastiano Ricci

The Baptism of Christ

Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Kai Khusrau Crosses the Sea", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Kai Khusrau Crosses the Sea", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Pan-American Exposition, by Whitehead & Hoag Company

Pan-American Exposition

Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1901

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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 2 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. 6161553 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-28 20:37 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.