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. 20 shown for “Ritual Implement Dedicated by a King Senwosret to Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II” — 51 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:14 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.
Ritual Implement Dedicated by a King Senwosret to Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II

Ritual Implement Dedicated by a King Senwosret to Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1840 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Dedication page, by Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663

Dedication page

Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · 1662

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude

Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page of "Histoire militaire de Flandre depuis l'Anée 1690, jusqu'en 1694 inclusivement", by I. Oger, French, active 18th c.

Title Page of "Histoire militaire de Flandre depuis l'Anée 1690, jusqu'en 1694 inclusivement"

I. Oger, French, active 18th c. · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Dedication page, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths), by Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663

Dedication page, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · after 1662

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Dedication Page, by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

Dedication Page

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Project for Tapestry Dedicated to Farm Life, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Project for Tapestry Dedicated to Farm Life

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1780–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model of a procession of offering bearers

Model of a procession of offering bearers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Dedication Page, by Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763

Dedication Page

Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment with Part of a Vertical Inscription

Relief Fragment with Part of a Vertical Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Lee Arnett Owney tag

Lee Arnett Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph

Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Ceilings Designed by Carlo Maria Pozzi, by Carlo Maria Pozzi

Album of Prints: Ceilings Designed by Carlo Maria Pozzi

Carlo Maria Pozzi · 1708

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph

Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Dedication Page, by Carlo Maria Pozzi

Dedication Page

Carlo Maria Pozzi · 1708

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph

Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770

Design for Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · ca. 1762

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2519634 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 11:14 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.