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 the tomb of Bakenrenef, wall from small room with texts and niches” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:46 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 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
The Interior of a Textile Factory, by Unknown

The Interior of a Textile Factory

Unknown · 1720–50

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
Hall Decoration, Hotel des Menus-Plaisirs, for the Assemblee des Notables, by Pierre-Adrien Paris, French, 1741 – 1819

Hall Decoration, Hotel des Menus-Plaisirs, for the Assemblee des Notables

Pierre-Adrien Paris, French, 1741 – 1819 · 1786

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Panelling of the Assembly Room in Palais Bourbon, by Jacques Gabriel, 1667–1742

Panelling of the Assembly Room in Palais Bourbon

Jacques Gabriel, 1667–1742 · ca. 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Room from a hotel in the Cours d'Albret, Bordeaux, by Barthélemy Cabirol

Room from a hotel in the Cours d'Albret, Bordeaux

Barthélemy Cabirol · ca. 1785, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Four Designs for Sepulchral Monuments, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Four Designs for Sepulchral Monuments

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

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
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 1625–50

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
Sepulcher with Death Seated and Crowned, by Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804

Sepulcher with Death Seated and Crowned

Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804 · 1779–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
West wall of the chapel of the mastaba Kaemsenu with niches for Iretnub, Kaemsenu and Werdjedptah

West wall of the chapel of the mastaba Kaemsenu with niches for Iretnub, Kaemsenu and Werdjedptah

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2420–2250 BCE

Public domainThe Met
View of the Porta Aurea, Palace of Diocletian, Split

View of the Porta Aurea, Palace of Diocletian, Split

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris, by Nicolas Huyot

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris

Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Triumphal Arch on an Ideal Piazza, by Gaetano Frizzati, Italian

Triumphal Arch on an Ideal Piazza

Gaetano Frizzati, Italian · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Public domainThe Met
Design for a loggia

Design for a loggia

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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 Wall Niche with a Fountain, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for Wall Niche with a Fountain

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1745

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
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
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: South Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: South Wall

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

Public domainThe Met
Plan et Coupe d'un Sallon au bout d'une Gallerie, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Plan et Coupe d'un Sallon au bout d'une Gallerie

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

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. 579 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. 3331398 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 01:46 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.