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. 19 shown for “Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:23 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 the Palace of Apries in Memphis

Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Palace Gate

Design for a Palace Gate

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arrow point, Apries

Arrow point, Apries

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

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

Elevation of a Palace

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arrow point, Apries

Arrow point, Apries

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Possible Design for Relief; Scene in Circle, Ornaments in Corners, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Possible Design for Relief; Scene in Circle, Ornaments in Corners

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arrow point, Apries

Arrow point, Apries

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 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
Arrow point, Apries

Arrow point, Apries

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Baseball cap from the Memphis Red Sox

Baseball cap from the Memphis Red Sox

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arrow point, Apries

Arrow point, Apries

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Section of wall, bedroom of Marie Antoinette, Palace of Fontainebleau, France, by Frederick Marschall

Section of wall, bedroom of Marie Antoinette, Palace of Fontainebleau, France

Frederick Marschall · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arrow point, Apries

Arrow point, Apries

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Section of wall, Gallery Francis I, Palace of Fontainebleau, France, by Frederick Marschall

Section of wall, Gallery Francis I, Palace of Fontainebleau, France

Frederick Marschall · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stela fragment depicting Pay adoring Re-Harakhty

Stela fragment depicting Pay adoring Re-Harakhty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Human-headed winged lion (lamassu)

Human-headed winged lion (lamassu)

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

Public domainThe Met
Palace, by Unidentified artist

Palace

Unidentified artist

Public domainThe Met
Menat necklace from Malqata

Menat necklace from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
David and Goliath, by Francesco Fanelli

David and Goliath

Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

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. 674 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. 7483507 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 16:23 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.