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. 14 shown for “Name Panel from Mortuary Complex of Senwosret I” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:58 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.
Name panel from mortuary complex of Senwosret I

Name panel from mortuary complex of Senwosret I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Werneria pygmaea complex

Werneria pygmaea complex

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Werneria pygmaea complex

Werneria pygmaea complex

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Name Panel from the Mortuary Complex of Senwosret I

Name Panel from the Mortuary Complex of Senwosret I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
"We Lend a Helping Hand" Engine Panel Painting, by unknown

"We Lend a Helping Hand" Engine Panel Painting

unknown · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Name Panels from the Inner Wall of Senwosret I's Pyramid Complex

Name Panels from the Inner Wall of Senwosret I's Pyramid Complex

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Werneria apiculata Sch. Bip.

Werneria apiculata Sch. Bip.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Translation of Psyche" Engine Panel Painting, by Woodside, John Archibald

"Translation of Psyche" Engine Panel Painting

Woodside, John Archibald · ca 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sledge from mortuary complex of Senwosret I

Sledge from mortuary complex of Senwosret I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Black Raggedy Ann style doll with ivory dress, by Unidentified

Black Raggedy Ann style doll with ivory dress

Unidentified · late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief fragment from mortuary complex of Senwosret I

Relief fragment from mortuary complex of Senwosret I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I

Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Heqanakht Letter I

Heqanakht Letter I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Part of Name Panel of Senwosret I – see 34.1.208

Part of Name Panel of Senwosret I – see 34.1.208

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

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. 192 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7472952 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 2026-08-26 22:58 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.