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. 12 shown for “Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu: a scribe and a cupbearer approach the queen's offering table” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 04:40 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu: a scribe and a cupbearer approach the queen's offering table

Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu: a scribe and a cupbearer approach the queen's offering table

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

Public domainThe Met
Menat necklace from Malqata

Menat necklace from Malqata

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

Public domainThe Met
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Relief fragments from the tomb of Queen Neferu: male and female attendants

Relief fragments from the tomb of Queen Neferu: male and female attendants

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

Public domainThe Met
Relief scene from the tomb of Queen Neferu: fragments from two registers showing male and female attendants moving to the right

Relief scene from the tomb of Queen Neferu: fragments from two registers showing male and female attendants moving to the right

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

Public domainThe Met
Mechanical table, by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table

Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Public domainThe Met
Miniature coffin for funerary figurine of Queen Neferu

Miniature coffin for funerary figurine of Queen Neferu

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

Public domainThe Met
Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu: part of a sunshade (see 26.3.353-1)

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

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

Public domainThe Met
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
Relief of an Acacia Tree Shading Water Jars with Drinking Cups

Relief of an Acacia Tree Shading Water Jars with Drinking Cups

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

Public domainThe Met
Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser

Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Relief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen Neferu

Relief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen Neferu

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

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. 59 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 04:40 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.