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 “Papyrus column (wadj) inlay” — 50 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:48 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.
Papyrus column (wadj) inlay

Papyrus column (wadj) inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of inlay: a papyrus capital

Fragment of inlay: a papyrus capital

Artist not stated in the record · 1307-1196 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Papyrus column (wadj) amulet

Papyrus column (wadj) amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Egyptian Temple

Stage Design, Egyptian Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Papyrus column amulet

Papyrus column amulet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Egyptian Buildings, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Egyptian Buildings

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · early 19th century

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
Stage Design, Egyptian Courtyard, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Egyptian Courtyard

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Papyrus Column (wadj) Amulet

Papyrus Column (wadj) Amulet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Dining Table of Mahogany and Inlay, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for a Dining Table of Mahogany and Inlay

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Faience wadj papyrus column

Faience wadj papyrus column

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 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
Faience wadj papyrus column

Faience wadj papyrus column

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cyperus papyrus L.

Cyperus papyrus L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Papyrus column amulet

Papyrus column amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Menat counterpoise for attachment to the missing aegis of a goddess

Menat counterpoise for attachment to the missing aegis of a goddess

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Champlevé furniture or cosmetic box plaque with a winged youth

Champlevé furniture or cosmetic box plaque with a winged youth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century 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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7299 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 21:48 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.