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. 21 shown for “Relief Fragment Showing Waterfowl in a Clapnet” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:34 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.
Relief Fragment Showing Waterfowl in a Clapnet

Relief Fragment Showing Waterfowl in a Clapnet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2020–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826), by Camillo Gajani, Italian

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)

Camillo Gajani, Italian · 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
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor

Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2010–2000 B.C.

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
Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 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 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
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment Depicting a Kneeling Woman

Relief Fragment Depicting a Kneeling Woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief showing Khety’s hand, with a graffito of Ramesside date

Relief showing Khety’s hand, with a graffito of Ramesside date

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Ewer with a Bas-Relief

Ewer with a Bas-Relief

Artist not stated in the record · 1543

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gilded silver relief

Gilded silver relief

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811

Textile

Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · ca. 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief fragment

Marble relief fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chalice fragment showing a file of nude females in a marshy landscape, inscribed, associated with 2013.635

Chalice fragment showing a file of nude females in a marshy landscape, inscribed, associated with 2013.635

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–721 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

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

Public domainThe Met
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
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. 398 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. 7483322 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-27 08:34 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.