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 remains of hieroglyphs” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 02:18 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 remains of hieroglyphs

Raised relief fragment with remains of hieroglyphs

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 hieroglyphs

Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised Relief Fragment with Fragmentary Hieroglyphs

Raised Relief Fragment with Fragmentary Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

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
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
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–8th 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
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th 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
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

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
Chicago Stock Exchange, by Louis Henry Sullivan, American, 1856–1924

Chicago Stock Exchange

Louis Henry Sullivan, American, 1856–1924 · 1893–94

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry fragment

Tapestry fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cornice Block with Relief Depicting the Purification of the Pharaoh

Cornice Block with Relief Depicting the Purification of the Pharaoh

Artist not stated in the record · 41–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 400–600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ewer and Basin, by Gottlieb Menzel, German, 1676 – 1757

Ewer and Basin

Gottlieb Menzel, German, 1676 – 1757 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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. 565 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. 2905060 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 02:18 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.