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. 19 shown for “Jar sealing impressed with name of Queen Neithhotep” — 58 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 22:50 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 sealing impressed with name of Queen Neithhotep

Jar sealing impressed with name of Queen Neithhotep

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Miniature Chest of Drawers containing Plaster Seal Impressions

Miniature Chest of Drawers containing Plaster Seal Impressions

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Seal Impression from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Fragmentary Seal Impression from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cream pitcher

Cream pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene

Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2250–2150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Queen honeybee cage

Queen honeybee cage

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sealed Jar from the Tomb of Yuya and Tjuyu

Sealed Jar from the Tomb of Yuya and Tjuyu

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

Public domainThe Met
Tea ceremony water jar, by Eiraku Hozen 永楽保全 (1795-1854)

Tea ceremony water jar

Eiraku Hozen 永楽保全 (1795-1854) · 1827-1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clay jar sealing impressed with name of Khasekhemwy

Clay jar sealing impressed with name of Khasekhemwy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
3c Washington top sheet margin strip of four on cover

3c Washington top sheet margin strip of four on cover

Artist not stated in the record · June 24, 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clay jar sealing Clay jar sealing impressed with name of Khasekhemwy

Clay jar sealing Clay jar sealing impressed with name of Khasekhemwy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Kyoto ware jar with design of phoenixes and paulownia crests

Kyoto ware jar with design of phoenixes and paulownia crests

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clay jar sealing Clay jar sealing impressed with name of Khasekhemwy

Clay jar sealing Clay jar sealing impressed with name of Khasekhemwy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Hypleurochilus loxias Jordan & Seale

Hypleurochilus loxias Jordan & Seale

Artist not stated in the record · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clay jar sealing impressed faintly with name of Khasekhemwy

Clay jar sealing impressed faintly with name of Khasekhemwy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Clay jar sealing impressed faintly with name of Khasekhemwy

Clay jar sealing impressed faintly with name of Khasekhemwy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Clay jar sealing impressed faintly with name of Khasekhemwy

Clay jar sealing impressed faintly with name of Khasekhemwy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Jar sealing

Jar sealing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder seal with chariot hunting scene and Old South Arabian inscription

Cylinder seal with chariot hunting scene and Old South Arabian inscription

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 7474422 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 22:50 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.