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 “Model of a granary with scribe and overseer” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:55 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.
Model of a granary with scribe and overseer

Model of a granary with scribe and overseer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1850 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Granaries, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Granaries, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 25, 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model of a Granary with Scribes

Model of a Granary with Scribes

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

Public domainThe Met
Dove Houses, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Dove Houses, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 21 and 24, 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Granary Tower

Granary Tower

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–early 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Scribe Set

Scribe Set

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Heriry

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Heriry

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef

Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Carpenter's scribe

Carpenter's scribe

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Overseer of the Double Granary Menkheperresonb

Funerary Cone of the Overseer of the Double Granary Menkheperresonb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Granary of Prince Ruspoli in Cerveteri, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Granary of Prince Ruspoli in Cerveteri

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780-1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Royal Scribe Menkheperreseneb

Funerary Cone of the Royal Scribe Menkheperreseneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Venus Admonishing Cupid

Venus Admonishing Cupid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nikare with his Wife and Daughter

Nikare with his Wife and Daughter

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2420–2389 BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Letter to Charles Humbert Marie Vincent signed by Toussaint Louverture

Letter to Charles Humbert Marie Vincent signed by Toussaint Louverture

Artist not stated in the record · October 21, 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser

Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 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. 122 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. 4064060 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 00:55 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.