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 “Relief fragments of two sacred emblems” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 15:12 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 fragments of two sacred emblems

Relief fragments of two sacred emblems

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

Public domainThe Met
Two-Handled Cup, by John Samuel Hunt, English, 1785 – 1865

Two-Handled Cup

John Samuel Hunt, English, 1785 – 1865 · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragments from a Large Figure of Mentuhotep II

Relief Fragments from a Large Figure of Mentuhotep II

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

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu depicting rituals and sacred emblems

Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu depicting rituals and sacred emblems

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 with the Annunciation

Relief with the Annunciation

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

Public domainThe Met
Tiraz fragment

Tiraz fragment

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

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 of paneling

Fragment of paneling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief

Relief

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–early 16th century

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
Relief: two servants bearing food and drink

Relief: two servants bearing food and drink

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 358–338 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Quilt fragment

Quilt fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle relief, by Toltec artist(s)

Eagle relief

Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

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 scene of sacred objects to be used in Khety's funeral

Relief scene of sacred objects to be used in Khety's funeral

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief panel

Relief panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 883–859 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Omega Psi Phi Colonel Charles E. Young Service medal and bracelet

Omega Psi Phi Colonel Charles E. Young Service medal and bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · 1934; 1978

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
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 with two officials or sons of the Vizier Dagi

Relief with two officials or sons of the Vizier Dagi

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2010–2000 B.C. or ca. 2000–1981 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment, by Meiller & Co.

Fragment

Meiller & Co. · 1770s

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. 806 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2876089 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-04 15:12 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.