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. 20 shown for “Mirror of the Chief of the Southern Tens Reniseneb” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:03 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.
Mirror of the Chief of the Southern Tens Reniseneb

Mirror of the Chief of the Southern Tens Reniseneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–1700 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
La-wée-re-coo-re-shaw-wee, War Chief, a Republican Pawnee, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

La-wée-re-coo-re-shaw-wee, War Chief, a Republican Pawnee

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680–1700

Public domainThe Met
La-wáh-he-coots-la-sháw-no, Brave Chief, a Skidi (Wolf) Pawnee, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

La-wáh-he-coots-la-sháw-no, Brave Chief, a Skidi (Wolf) Pawnee

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Lá-shah-le-stáw-hix, Man Chief, a Republican Pawnee, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Lá-shah-le-stáw-hix, Man Chief, a Republican Pawnee

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shen amulet of Reniseneb

Shen amulet of Reniseneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–1700 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
La-kée-too-wi-rá-sha, Little Chief, a Tapage Pawnee Warrior, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

La-kée-too-wi-rá-sha, Little Chief, a Tapage Pawnee Warrior

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adoration of the Magi, by Circle of Peter Hemmel von Andlau (Strassburger Werkstattgemeinschaft)

Adoration of the Magi

Circle of Peter Hemmel von Andlau (Strassburger Werkstattgemeinschaft) · 1507

Public domainThe Met
A'h-sha-la-cóots-ah, Mole in the Forehead, Chief of the Republican Pawnee, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

A'h-sha-la-cóots-ah, Mole in the Forehead, Chief of the Republican Pawnee

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

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
Le-sháw-loo-láh-le-hoo, Big Elk, Chief of the Skidi (Wolf) Pawnee, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Le-sháw-loo-láh-le-hoo, Big Elk, Chief of the Skidi (Wolf) Pawnee

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

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

Public domainThe Met
Coupe d’un batiment de quatre toises de face, prise sur la longueur, by A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768

Coupe d’un batiment de quatre toises de face, prise sur la longueur

A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768 · ca. 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Purple polka dot blouse with scarf collar, by Unidentified

Purple polka dot blouse with scarf collar

Unidentified · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model of a Porch and Garden

Model of a Porch and Garden

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of the Catholic Faith, by Johannes Vermeer

Allegory of the Catholic Faith

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

Public domainThe Met
Cosmetic Box of Kemeni and Mirror of Reniseneb

Cosmetic Box of Kemeni and Mirror of Reniseneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1814–1805 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Book of the Gospels, by Northern Highlands artist

Book of the Gospels

Northern Highlands artist · late 14th–early 15th 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. 571 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. 3132632 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 17:03 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.