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. 17 shown for “Mourning Isis” — 48 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:08 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.
Mourning Isis

Mourning Isis

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Isis, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Isis

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mourning Nephthys

Mourning Nephthys

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mourning Pin, by Unidentified

Mourning Pin

Unidentified · 1790s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funeral Boat, Tomb of Haremhab, by Norman de Garis Davies

Funeral Boat, Tomb of Haremhab

Norman de Garis Davies · 1912; original ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Isis, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Isis

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Outer Coffin of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Outer Coffin of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mourning Ring for William Burnside, by Unidentified

Mourning Ring for William Burnside

Unidentified · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mourning Pin for ER, by Unidentified

Mourning Pin for ER

Unidentified · late 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hall of Antiquities at Charlottenborg Palace, Copenhagen, by Adam August Müller

The Hall of Antiquities at Charlottenborg Palace, Copenhagen

Adam August Müller · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Mourning Locket for A. R., by Unidentified

Mourning Locket for A. R.

Unidentified · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffin of Ahmose

Coffin of Ahmose

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

Public domainThe Met
Mourning picture

Mourning picture

Artist not stated in the record · 1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shroud

Shroud

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 125 CE

Public domainThe Met
Winged Isis--Egyptian, by Unidentified

Winged Isis--Egyptian

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pleated mourning fan, by Duvelleroy, Paris, France, founded 1827

Pleated mourning fan

Duvelleroy, Paris, France, founded 1827 · 1885–90

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 871 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 14:08 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.