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. 23 shown for “Relief fragment - see 26.3.353-3” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:12 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 - see 26.3.353-3

Relief fragment - see 26.3.353-3

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief fragment - see 26.3.353-3

Relief fragment - see 26.3.353-3

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

Public domainThe Met
Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card

Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiraz fragment

Tiraz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief of female attendants and oxen - see 26.3.353-3

Relief of female attendants and oxen - see 26.3.353-3

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

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu, part of sunshade (see 26.3.353-1)

Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu, part of sunshade (see 26.3.353-1)

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

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

Designs After Architecture Fragments

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief of a woman with a hairpin - see 26.3.353-5

Relief of a woman with a hairpin - see 26.3.353-5

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of paneling

Fragment of paneling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief depicting an elaborate doorway - see 26.3.353-5

Relief depicting an elaborate doorway - see 26.3.353-5

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

Public domainThe Met
Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card

Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief of part of a female attendant - see 26.3.353-3

Relief of part of a female attendant - see 26.3.353-3

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief of feet of ox - see 26.3.353-3

Relief of feet of ox - see 26.3.353-3

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

Public domainThe Met
Quilt fragment

Quilt fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief showing the handle of a mirror - see 26.3.353-3

Relief showing the handle of a mirror - see 26.3.353-3

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief of the foot of an ox - see 26.3.353-3

Relief of the foot of an ox - see 26.3.353-3

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief showing the tip of a sunshade - see 26.3.353-3

Relief showing the tip of a sunshade - see 26.3.353-3

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 14th 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. 311 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. 44039 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 2026-09-02 11:12 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.