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 “Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut) Flanked by Two Falcons” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:49 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.
Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut) Flanked by Two Falcons

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut) Flanked by Two Falcons

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

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare Flanked by Falcons

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare Flanked by Falcons

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

Public domainThe Met
The Two Houses of Parliament, from Harrison's History of London, by John Cooke, English, acitve 18th c.

The Two Houses of Parliament, from Harrison's History of London

John Cooke, English, acitve 18th c. · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands, Maatkare (Hatshepsut) Flanked by Lotus Flowers

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands, Maatkare (Hatshepsut) Flanked by Lotus Flowers

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

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Title Page

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

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

Public domainThe Met
Page Two from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Huquier", by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Page Two from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Huquier"

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · after 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

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

Public domainThe Met
Decoration of the Two Vestibules in Hotel Roquelaure, by Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746

Decoration of the Two Vestibules in Hotel Roquelaure

Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746 · ca. 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

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

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

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

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
Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare, Living, Flanked by Two Red Crowns

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare, Living, Flanked by Two Red Crowns

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

Public domainThe Met
Poetry, after Raphael Sanzio, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Poetry, after Raphael Sanzio

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut), Lord of the Two Lands

Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut), Lord of the Two Lands

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

Public domainThe Met
Plate 2, "Decoration d'une Porte à placards à double ventaux", by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Plate 2, "Decoration d'une Porte à placards à double ventaux"

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · ca. 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut), Lord of the Two Lands

Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut), Lord of the Two Lands

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

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Country Villa, by Unknown, Italian

Elevation of a Country Villa

Unknown, Italian · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut), Lord of the Two Lands

Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut), Lord of the Two Lands

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

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed Perfect God, Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed Perfect God, Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

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

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Elevation of Garden Architecture (Entrance to a Villa or Garden), by Unknown, Italian

Project for an Elevation of Garden Architecture (Entrance to a Villa or Garden)

Unknown, Italian · 1725–75

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. 84 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. 3162622 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 11:49 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.