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 “Scarab Inscribed with a Hieroglyphic Motif” — 40 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:53 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs

Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valise

Valise

Artist not stated in the record · 1883–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Modern Woodmen of America"

"Modern Woodmen of America"

Artist not stated in the record · patented 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Purse with Egyptian ornament, by Sloan & Company

Purse with Egyptian ornament

Sloan & Company · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neo-Egyptian Motifs, by Watrous Manufacturing Company

Neo-Egyptian Motifs

Watrous Manufacturing Company · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Title Page

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
POELE formant colonne tronquée, cannelée, à bandeaux, orné de bas-reliefs et surmonté d’un vase antique, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

POELE formant colonne tronquée, cannelée, à bandeaux, orné de bas-reliefs et surmonté d’un vase antique

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Oval Cake Basket, by Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801

Pierced Oval Cake Basket

Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801 · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Détails des differents Monuments projetée et executée à Soisy sous Etiole dans le Parc de Mr. Davelouis par Dubois ainé Architecte Eleve et 1er neveu de feu Antoine Architecte des Monnoies de France, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Détails des differents Monuments projetée et executée à Soisy sous Etiole dans le Parc de Mr. Davelouis par Dubois ainé Architecte Eleve et 1er neveu de feu Antoine Architecte des Monnoies de France

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bilboquet

Bilboquet

Artist not stated in the record · possibly ca. 1780

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1865353 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 06:53 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.