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 “Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:43 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.
Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers

Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers

Artist not stated in the record · 664–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph portraits of Josephine Sampson

Photograph portraits of Josephine Sampson

Artist not stated in the record · 1910s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Black hat with white feather hat band, by Unidentified

Black hat with white feather hat band

Unidentified · 1970s-1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet of cow-headed goddess with feathers atop disk and horns

Amulet of cow-headed goddess with feathers atop disk and horns

Artist not stated in the record · 525–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cream hat with feather decoration, by Unidentified

Cream hat with feather decoration

Unidentified · ca. 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab with Sobek and Wadjet

Scarab with Sobek and Wadjet

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

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796

Button

Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral depicting Isis nursing infant Horus in the marsh surrounded by protective genii

Pectoral depicting Isis nursing infant Horus in the marsh surrounded by protective genii

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tapestry: Allegory of Africa, by Gérard Audran, French, 1640–1703

Design for a Tapestry: Allegory of Africa

Gérard Audran, French, 1640–1703 · 1660-1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vulture head and double uraei with disk and horn crowns, from statue of a goddess

Vulture head and double uraei with disk and horn crowns, from statue of a goddess

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lit à la Reine, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Lit à la Reine

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with mythological scene, by Metropolitan Painter

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Lit en chaire à precher, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Lit en chaire à precher

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coat of Arms with an Eagle

Coat of Arms with an Eagle

Artist not stated in the record · 1543

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Attachment for the crown of an Osiris statue

Attachment for the crown of an Osiris statue

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [above left]; Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [below left]; Dragon Hunt in India [above right]; Dragon Hunt in India [below right]., by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [above left]; Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [below left]; Dragon Hunt in India [above right]; Dragon Hunt in India [below right].

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with seated Tatenen (or Ptah-Tatenen)

Tile with seated Tatenen (or Ptah-Tatenen)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lit en dome retrousse a la romaine vu de face., by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Lit en dome retrousse a la romaine vu de face.

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief of a Female Deity's Head

Relief of a Female Deity's Head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lit à 4 colonnes surmonte d’un baldaquin a 3 dossiers vu de face, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Lit à 4 colonnes surmonte d’un baldaquin a 3 dossiers vu de face

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a hippo goddess, probably Taweret

Statuette of a hippo goddess, probably Taweret

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Trophies, by Roubiliac, French, active 18th century

Two Designs for Trophies

Roubiliac, French, active 18th century · 18th 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. 41 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. 1580197 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 10:43 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.