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 depicting rituals and sacred emblems” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 13:30 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 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
Menat necklace from Malqata

Menat necklace from Malqata

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

Public domainThe Met
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
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
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
Relief fragments from the tomb of Neferu showing richly adorned attendants moving right to left

Relief fragments from the tomb of Neferu showing richly adorned attendants moving right to left

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

Public domainThe Met
Relief fragments from an elaborate false doorway

Relief fragments from an elaborate false doorway

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
Relief of Queen Neferu having her hair done

Relief of Queen Neferu having her hair done

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

Public domainThe Met
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Relief of an attendant raising a necklace in front of a pole-like image

Relief of an attendant raising a necklace in front of a pole-like image

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

Public domainThe Met
Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

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

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

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 13:30 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.