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. 18 shown for “King's attendant” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 06:34 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.
King Arthur (from the Heroes Tapestries)

King Arthur (from the Heroes Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Public domainThe Met
The Chinese Emperor Minghuang and his concubine Yang Guifei, with attendants on a terrace, by Kano Eitoku 狩野永徳 (1543-1590)

The Chinese Emperor Minghuang and his concubine Yang Guifei, with attendants on a terrace

Kano Eitoku 狩野永徳 (1543-1590) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with equestrian ọ́bà (king) and attendants, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque with equestrian ọ́bà (king) and attendants

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Attendants in a Procession

Attendants in a Procession

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

Public domainThe Met
Plan du Lit de Justice Tenu par LE ROY le 13. Decembre 1756. Dans la Grande Chambre du Parlement, au Palais, à Paris, by François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800

Plan du Lit de Justice Tenu par LE ROY le 13. Decembre 1756. Dans la Grande Chambre du Parlement, au Palais, à Paris

François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with palace attendant

Relief with palace attendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Plan du Lit de Justice, Tenu par le Roy le Aoust 1756. dans la Grande Sale des Gardes au Château de Versailles., by François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800

Plan du Lit de Justice, Tenu par le Roy le Aoust 1756. dans la Grande Sale des Gardes au Château de Versailles.

François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of a kneeling Kushite king

Statue of a kneeling Kushite king

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab with Representation of an Enthroned King

Scarab with Representation of an Enthroned King

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–900 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Charger with Alexander the Great Defeating Darius Surrounded by the Four Continents

Charger with Alexander the Great Defeating Darius Surrounded by the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 1689

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chinese emperor and attendant, by Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory

Chinese emperor and attendant

Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1765–67 with possible later decoration

Public domainThe Met
Funerary stela of "follower [of the king ?]" Megegi and his wife Henit

Funerary stela of "follower [of the king ?]" Megegi and his wife Henit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2059–2051 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock, by James Cox

Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock

James Cox · 1766

Public domainThe Met
Relief scene from the tomb of Queen Neferu: fragments from two registers showing male and female attendants moving to the right

Relief scene from the tomb of Queen Neferu: fragments from two registers showing male and female attendants moving to the right

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Capital with Samson and an Attendant Fighting a Lion

Capital with Samson and an Attendant Fighting a Lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
King's attendant

King's attendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

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. 266 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. 64529 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 06:34 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.