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 “Jar from the Burial of Amenhotep” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:47 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.
Jar from the Burial of Amenhotep

Jar from the Burial of Amenhotep

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

Public domainThe Met
Jar with three lugs, for burial of cremated remains

Jar with three lugs, for burial of cremated remains

Artist not stated in the record · 1750-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar from the Burial of Amenhotep

Jar from the Burial of Amenhotep

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

Public domainThe Met
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar from the Burial of the Child Amenhotep

Jar from the Burial of the Child Amenhotep

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

Public domainThe Met
One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

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

Public domainThe Met
One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 300 BCE–200 CE

Public domainThe Met
One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brazier from the Burial of Amenhotep

Brazier from the Burial of Amenhotep

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

Public domainThe Met
One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar, by Teotihuacan artist(s)

Jar

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–550 CE

Public domainThe Met
One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head from a Statue of King Amenhotep I

Head from a Statue of King Amenhotep I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Public domainThe Met
One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled, by Dave (later recorded as David Drake)

Untitled

Dave (later recorded as David Drake) · 1858

Public domainThe Met
One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man

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. 6671 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. 3071929 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 22:47 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.