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 with female offering bearers” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:23 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 with female offering bearers

Raised relief fragment with female offering bearers

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
Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty

Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty

Artist not stated in the record · 656–650 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Estate Figure

Estate Figure

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: West Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: West Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment with a male offering bearer

Raised relief fragment with a male offering bearer

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon, by Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612

Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon

Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612 · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief of offering bearers carrying boxes

Relief of offering bearers carrying boxes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment with head of an offering bearer and offerings

Raised relief fragment with head of an offering bearer and offerings

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised Relief Fragment with Preliminary Drawing of Offerings

Raised Relief Fragment with Preliminary Drawing of Offerings

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief scene from the tomb of Queen Neferu: fragments from two registers showing male and female attendants moving to the right

Relief scene from the tomb of Queen Neferu: fragments from two registers showing male and female attendants moving to the right

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 800–1000

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
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 fragments from procession of attendants

Relief fragments from procession of attendants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Stuart Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stuart Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

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. 86 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 820833 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-26 20:23 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.