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 “Plaque inlaid with Cartouche of Seti II” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 18:19 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.
Plaque inlaid with Cartouche of Seti II

Plaque inlaid with Cartouche of Seti II

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

Public domainThe Met
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amuletic plaque of Paser, the Vizier of Seti I and Ramesses II, by Paser

Amuletic plaque of Paser, the Vizier of Seti I and Ramesses II

Paser · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab of Seti II

Scarab of Seti II

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

Public domainThe Met
Chasse with Saints and Angels

Chasse with Saints and Angels

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay Representing the Cartouche of Seti II

Inlay Representing the Cartouche of Seti II

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

Public domainThe Met
Snuff Box

Snuff Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall Tile with the Cartouche of Seti II

Wall Tile with the Cartouche of Seti II

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

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a votive tile with cartouche of Seti II

Fragment of a votive tile with cartouche of Seti II

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

Public domainThe Met
Kinchaku (purse) with netsuke and ojime on chord

Kinchaku (purse) with netsuke and ojime on chord

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of tile

Fragment of tile

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

Public domainThe Met
Knife

Knife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II

Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1878 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for Renaissance-Style Sideboard in Plan and Elevation, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Renaissance-Style Sideboard in Plan and Elevation

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque, two cartouches with names of Amenemhat II

Plaque, two cartouches with names of Amenemhat II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1885 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
L’ASTRONOMIE / LA GÉOGRAPHIE

L’ASTRONOMIE / LA GÉOGRAPHIE

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque in the Form of a Cartouche; two ankhs; ankh, two nefers

Plaque in the Form of a Cartouche; two ankhs; ankh, two nefers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Oval Dining Table 'A" of Mahogany, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for an Oval Dining Table 'A" of Mahogany

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Portrait of S. Francesco Xavier (1506-1552)

Portrait of S. Francesco Xavier (1506-1552)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Designs, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Arabesque Ornament Designs

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

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. 126 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. 2905500 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-04 18:19 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.