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. 12 shown for “Plaque depicting a goddess, king on opposite side” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:16 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Plaque depicting a goddess, king on opposite side

Plaque depicting a goddess, king on opposite side

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plaque Depicting a Goddess or Queen, and on Opposite Side a King

Plaque Depicting a Goddess or Queen, and on Opposite Side a King

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Relief of king's head in blue crown, head of child god on opposite side

Relief of king's head in blue crown, head of child god on opposite side

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Relief plaque with ram, and on opposite side two feet

Relief plaque with ram, and on opposite side two feet

Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Relief plaque with Wadjet and Nekhbet, the "Two Ladies"; falcon on opposite

Relief plaque with Wadjet and Nekhbet, the "Two Ladies"; falcon on opposite

Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plaque with head and shoulders of a priestly figure, opposite side head of priestly figure and most of a figure of crocodile-headed god

Plaque with head and shoulders of a priestly figure, opposite side head of priestly figure and most of a figure of crocodile-headed god

Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Inlay depicting squatting goddess, probably Hathor

Inlay depicting squatting goddess, probably Hathor

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Relief plaque with two swallows, opposite side two quail chicks

Relief plaque with two swallows, opposite side two quail chicks

Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Oblong Plaque Depicting Ramesses II Smiting Enemies, opposite side relief scene of Isis and Nephthys flanking falcon labeled Horus son of Isis

Oblong Plaque Depicting Ramesses II Smiting Enemies, opposite side relief scene of Isis and Nephthys flanking falcon labeled Horus son of Isis

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

Public domainThe Met
Ball-Playing Ceremony: the king before a goddess, possibly Hathor

Ball-Playing Ceremony: the king before a goddess, possibly Hathor

Artist not stated in the record · 380–246 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lion-headed goddess suckling the king

Lion-headed goddess suckling the king

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 708–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Adam Weisweiler

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

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

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. 195 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 05:16 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.