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 “Ostracon with Line Drawing of Theban Triad” — 62 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:48 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.
Ostracon with Line Drawing of Theban Triad

Ostracon with Line Drawing of Theban Triad

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
View of the Theban Mountains from Kineh, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

View of the Theban Mountains from Kineh

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hieratic ostracon

Hieratic ostracon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: The Division of Priests, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: The Division of Priests

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hieratic ostracon

Hieratic ostracon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Artus Van Briggle, American, 1869 – 1904

Vase

Artus Van Briggle, American, 1869 – 1904 · 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hieratic ostracon

Hieratic ostracon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hieratic ostracon

Hieratic ostracon

Artist not stated in the record · later than 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hieratic ostracon

Hieratic ostracon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plinth with four repeat images of Buddhist triads

Plinth with four repeat images of Buddhist triads

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hieratic ostracon

Hieratic ostracon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Floral field and border

Floral field and border

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon with liliform capital

Ostracon with liliform capital

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dracophyllum verticillatum Labill.

Dracophyllum verticillatum Labill.

Artist not stated in the record · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon with liliform capital

Ostracon with liliform capital

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Elevation of a Public Building

Design for the Elevation of a Public Building

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon Depicting the God Sobek

Ostracon Depicting the God Sobek

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Wallpaper or Textile of Daisy-Type Flower with Repeat, by Unknown

Design for Wallpaper or Textile of Daisy-Type Flower with Repeat

Unknown · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon with sketch of a harpist

Ostracon with sketch of a harpist

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Decoration, Four Allegorical Representations, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Ceiling Decoration, Four Allegorical Representations

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon with sketch of a calf

Ostracon with sketch of a calf

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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. 22 matched · 22 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. 2909914 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-27 01:48 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.