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 “Raised relief fragment depicting a hieroglyph” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 02:16 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.
Raised relief fragment depicting a hieroglyph

Raised relief fragment depicting a hieroglyph

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment with a hieroglyph

Raised relief fragment with a hieroglyph

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hall Decoration, Hotel des Menus-Plaisirs, for the Assemblee des Notables, by Pierre-Adrien Paris, French, 1741 – 1819

Hall Decoration, Hotel des Menus-Plaisirs, for the Assemblee des Notables

Pierre-Adrien Paris, French, 1741 – 1819 · 1786

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief showing procession of offering bearers

Relief showing procession of offering bearers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Police Gazette Championship Belt and presentation case awarded to Ezzard Charles

Police Gazette Championship Belt and presentation case awarded to Ezzard Charles

Artist not stated in the record · 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
World War II Army Good Conduct Medal awarded to Robert S. Jennings

World War II Army Good Conduct Medal awarded to Robert S. Jennings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Barbados Pineapple Penny, by John Milton, British, 1759 - 1805

Barbados Pineapple Penny

John Milton, British, 1759 - 1805 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment

Raised relief fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs After Architecture, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs After Architecture

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph

Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Square fragment: showing Buddhist procession

Square fragment: showing Buddhist procession

Artist not stated in the record · early 6th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment with a Ship Under Sail

Relief Fragment with a Ship Under Sail

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2465–2458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bedroom, Hotel de Mailly-Nesle, Paris, by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Design for a Bedroom, Hotel de Mailly-Nesle, Paris

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1770–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Silver badge for George Washington Perkins of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry

Silver badge for George Washington Perkins of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry

Artist not stated in the record · 1864-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis

Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with the Annunciation

Relief with the Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Chimneypiece, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

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. 823 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. 1821887 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-31 02:16 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.