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 “Part of Khety's desert hunt scene” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:27 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.
Part of Khety's desert hunt scene

Part of Khety's desert hunt scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Casket

Casket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a desert hunt - see 26.3.354-5-related

Fragment of a desert hunt - see 26.3.354-5-related

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an unfinished cartoon for cotton printing: Hunting and Fishing [La Chasse et La Pêche], by Jean-Jacques Karpff, French, 1770 - 1829

Fragment of an unfinished cartoon for cotton printing: Hunting and Fishing [La Chasse et La Pêche]

Jean-Jacques Karpff, French, 1770 - 1829 · 1810 or 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desert Scene with Antelope

Desert Scene with Antelope

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Firearms Ornament and Hunting Scenes, by Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776

Designs for Firearms Ornament and Hunting Scenes

Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene

Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th−9th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Gun Parts and Ornament, by François Marcou, French, 1595 – 1660

Designs for Gun Parts and Ornament

François Marcou, French, 1595 – 1660 · 1657

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wolf and Fox Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
The Deserted Village

The Deserted Village

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief showing Khety’s hand, with a graffito of Ramesside date

Relief showing Khety’s hand, with a graffito of Ramesside date

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Savoyards

Savoyards

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Album of Hunting and Animal Scenes, by Charles Dagomer, French, active 1750 – d.1766

Album of Hunting and Animal Scenes

Charles Dagomer, French, active 1750 – d.1766 · 1755–76

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Hunting scenes

Hunting scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Princely Hunt

A Princely Hunt

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Part of an elaborate roof or canopy - see 26.3.354-2

Part of an elaborate roof or canopy - see 26.3.354-2

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Handkerchief

Handkerchief

Artist not stated in the record · 1790s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene with monkeys and baboons

Scene with monkeys and baboons

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Title Page and Hunting Scene, by Charles Dagomer, French, active 1750 – d.1766

Title Page and Hunting Scene

Charles Dagomer, French, active 1750 – d.1766 · 1755–76

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. 255 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 2877733 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 2026-08-28 13:27 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.