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. 18 shown for “Profile Head Inlay” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:19 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.
Profile Head Inlay

Profile Head Inlay

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

Public domainThe Met
Cane with Head and Geometric Inlay, by Unidentified

Cane with Head and Geometric Inlay

Unidentified · probably 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay profile head

Inlay profile head

Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Linchpin on the form of a figure and dragon head

Linchpin on the form of a figure and dragon head

Artist not stated in the record · 122-125

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay profile head

Inlay profile head

Artist not stated in the record · 500–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Banjo created for Charles P. Stinson

Banjo created for Charles P. Stinson

Artist not stated in the record · late19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Profile face inlay

Profile face inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 570–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Profile face inlay

Profile face inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 570–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an amulet inlay. Head missing

Fragment of an amulet inlay. Head missing

Artist not stated in the record · 1307-1196 BCE

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
Knife

Knife

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Ptolemy II or III

Head of Ptolemy II or III

Artist not stated in the record · 246–222 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Antelope Head

Antelope Head

Artist not stated in the record · 525–404 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
Fragmentary Face of King Khafre

Fragmentary Face of King Khafre

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

Public domainThe Met
Enthroned Buddha Granting Boons

Enthroned Buddha Granting Boons

Artist not stated in the record · dated by inscription to ca. 600

Public domainThe Met
Head Attributed to Arsinoe II

Head Attributed to Arsinoe II

Artist not stated in the record · 278–270 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. 2007 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 70061 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 09:19 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.