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. 23 shown for “Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut) with a Falcon Above” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:38 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 with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut) with a Falcon Above

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut) with a Falcon Above

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

Public domainThe Met
Goose and Duck Hunt with Falcons [above right]; Goose Hunt [below right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Goose and Duck Hunt with Falcons [above right]; Goose Hunt [below right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1596-99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut) with a Falcon Above

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut) with a Falcon Above

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

Public domainThe Met
Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ceiling Decorations, with Plan of Spectators' Room of a Theater, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Designs for Ceiling Decorations, with Plan of Spectators' Room of a Theater

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

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

Public domainThe Met
Sculpture Gallery: Project for the Decoration of a Hall in a Palace during the Reign of the Emperor Napoleon as King of Italy

Sculpture Gallery: Project for the Decoration of a Hall in a Palace during the Reign of the Emperor Napoleon as King of Italy

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut) Flanked by Two Falcons, One Proffering an Ankh

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut) Flanked by Two Falcons, One Proffering an Ankh

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Wooden Door in a Panelled Room, by Unknown, Italian

Design for a Wooden Door in a Panelled Room

Unknown, Italian · 1626-1650

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
Designs for Twelve Earrings, by Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century

Designs for Twelve Earrings

Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century · 1865–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

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

Public domainThe Met
Wall Elevation, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Wall Elevation

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

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

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement for "Fire King Gas Ranges", by Whitehead & Hoag Company

Advertisement for "Fire King Gas Ranges"

Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

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

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Title Page

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sofa, by Brothers Santi, Rome, Italy

Design for a Sofa

Brothers Santi, Rome, Italy · 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for the East Portal, Grand Gallery, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for the East Portal, Grand Gallery, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1755

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

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

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 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. 137 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. 7470764 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 22:38 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.