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 from around the false door in the tomb of Bakenrenef, 3 sections” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:26 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 from around the false door in the tomb of Bakenrenef, 3 sections

Relief from around the false door in the tomb of Bakenrenef, 3 sections

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Doors, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for Doors

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

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
Elevation of Salon Chimney Wall, by Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, French, 1727 – 1793

Elevation of Salon Chimney Wall

Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, French, 1727 – 1793 · ca. 1780

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

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a casino

Design for a casino

Artist not stated in the record · 1785

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
Section of a Vestibule

Section of a Vestibule

Artist not stated in the record · 1790

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

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

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

Public domainThe Met
Four gateways, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Four gateways

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2381–2323 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tomb Carving from the Museum at Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Tomb Carving from the Museum at Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 14-25, 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the tomb of Bakenrenef, wall from small room with texts and niches

Relief from the tomb of Bakenrenef, wall from small room with texts and niches

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Postcard for Sugar Ray's Cafe

Postcard for Sugar Ray's Cafe

Artist not stated in the record · 1946-1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the tomb of Bakenrenef, wall from small room with texts and niches

Relief from the tomb of Bakenrenef, wall from small room with texts and niches

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Proposed Elevation, Section, and Plan for the Facade of San Giovanni, Laterano, Rome, Italy, by Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709

Proposed Elevation, Section, and Plan for the Facade of San Giovanni, Laterano, Rome, Italy

Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709 · 1699–1700

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
Design for a Salon Entrance

Design for a Salon Entrance

Artist not stated in the record · 1790-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Mt. Hor, Jordan, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mt. Hor, Jordan

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 23, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Part of a Ceiling from the Tomb of Bakenrenef

Part of a Ceiling from the Tomb of Bakenrenef

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a church, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of a church

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Tomb jar

Tomb jar

Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd 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. 497 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. 7483529 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 23:26 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.