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. 20 shown for “Profile Face Inlay of King Akhenaten” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:21 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.
Profile Face Inlay of King Akhenaten

Profile Face Inlay of King Akhenaten

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

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Louise King Cox, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Portrait of Louise King Cox

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Face, by Olmec artist(s)

Face

Olmec artist(s) · 900–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tsuba

Tsuba

Artist not stated in the record · 1595–1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Face of King Khafre

Fragmentary Face of King Khafre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2520–2494 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tsuba

Tsuba

Artist not stated in the record · 1596–1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Profile face inlay

Profile face inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 570–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Henry IV, by Frederick Marschall

Henry IV

Frederick Marschall · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Profile face inlay

Profile face inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 570–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Audelco best musical production award for Champeen awarded to Melvin Van Peebles

Audelco best musical production award for Champeen awarded to Melvin Van Peebles

Artist not stated in the record · November 21, 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Statuette of Thutmose III

Ritual Statuette of Thutmose III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tsuba, by Kawaji Tomotomi, Japanese, 1754

Tsuba

Kawaji Tomotomi, Japanese, 1754 · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

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

Public domainThe Met
Flowers of the Air, Illustration for Scribner's Magazine (XVII, No. 2, February 1895, p. 266), by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

Flowers of the Air, Illustration for Scribner's Magazine (XVII, No. 2, February 1895, p. 266)

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · February 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle

Bottle

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

Public domainThe Met
Sri Cakrasamvara and Vajravarahi

Sri Cakrasamvara and Vajravarahi

Artist not stated in the record · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shabti of Akhenaten

Shabti of Akhenaten

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

Public domainThe Met
Head from a Statue of King Amenhotep I

Head from a Statue of King Amenhotep I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Profile Head Inlay

Profile Head Inlay

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

Public domainThe Met
Statuette of the Child Amenemhab

Statuette of the Child Amenemhab

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 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. 256 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2897103 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 09:21 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.