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. 24 shown for “Openwork plaque with papyrus and pomegranates” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:08 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.
Openwork plaque with papyrus and pomegranates

Openwork plaque with papyrus and pomegranates

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Knife

Knife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds

Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
'Egyptian' Pattern Berry Spoon, by Whiting Manufacturing Company, 1866 – 1926

'Egyptian' Pattern Berry Spoon

Whiting Manufacturing Company, 1866 – 1926 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet in the shape of a plaque and with the depiction of a papyrus column

Amulet in the shape of a plaque and with the depiction of a papyrus column

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Basket of Blossoms and Leaves with Pomegranates on Earth

Basket of Blossoms and Leaves with Pomegranates on Earth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of the Dead Papyrus with Chapters 100 and 129

Book of the Dead Papyrus with Chapters 100 and 129

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ewer, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Ewer

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Flowers: White Muscade Rose, Pomegranate Flower, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Designs for Flowers: White Muscade Rose, Pomegranate Flower

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Openwork furniture plaque with a falcon-headed figure in a papyrus thicket

Openwork furniture plaque with a falcon-headed figure in a papyrus thicket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Secretary, by Martin Carlin

Secretary

Martin Carlin · ca. 1781–85

Public domainThe Met
Dome-shaped

Dome-shaped

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fork

Fork

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA

Textile

Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

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. 235 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. 1522237 matched · 40 examined · 12 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 00:08 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.