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. 22 shown for “Saw From a Foundation Deposit, Hatshepsut's Temple” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 06:49 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.
Saw From a Foundation Deposit, Hatshepsut's Temple

Saw From a Foundation Deposit, Hatshepsut's Temple

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ax From a Foundation Deposit, Hatshepsut's Temple

Ax From a Foundation Deposit, Hatshepsut's Temple

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

Public domainThe Met
Pichincha at Morning from the Hill of the Temple of the Sun, Quito, Ecuador, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Pichincha at Morning from the Hill of the Temple of the Sun, Quito, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpenter's Adze from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Carpenter's Adze from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

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

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall - fragment

Sidewall - fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit

Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit

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

Public domainThe Met
Puzzle Bottle, by Unidentified

Puzzle Bottle

Unidentified · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Surveyor's Stake from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Surveyor's Stake from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

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

Public domainThe Met
Pillow cover

Pillow cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Surveyor's Mallet From Foundation Deposit B, Hatshepsut's Temple

Surveyor's Mallet From Foundation Deposit B, Hatshepsut's Temple

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

Public domainThe Met
Bull's eye cancellation handstamp

Bull's eye cancellation handstamp

Artist not stated in the record · 1870-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"

Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"

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

Public domainThe Met
Tomb of Civil War Unknowns and Temple of Fame at Arlington National Cemetary, by Gruber, Martin A

Tomb of Civil War Unknowns and Temple of Fame at Arlington National Cemetary

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Meskhetyu Instrument From Foundation Deposit C, Hatshepsut's Temple

Meskhetyu Instrument From Foundation Deposit C, Hatshepsut's Temple

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

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Saw from a Foundation Deposit

Model Saw from a Foundation Deposit

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

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1702

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit

Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cushion cover

Cushion cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

Dish from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

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

Public domainThe Met
Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 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. 512 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. 1955842 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 06:49 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.