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 With an Image of the Gods Ptah and Sakhmet” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:59 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 With an Image of the Gods Ptah and Sakhmet

Scarab With an Image of the Gods Ptah and Sakhmet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Recto: Fountain Design with Oceanus and the River Gods Arno and Tiber, by Jacopo Zucchi, Italian, ca. 1541– ca. 1590

Recto: Fountain Design with Oceanus and the River Gods Arno and Tiber

Jacopo Zucchi, Italian, ca. 1541– ca. 1590 · ca. 1570

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of the God Ptah

Statue of the God Ptah

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–721 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument for Poet Maria Maddalena Morelli, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for Poet Maria Maddalena Morelli

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1720–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lintel depicting King Amenemhat I flanked by Nekhbet, Horus, Anubis, and Wadjet

Lintel depicting King Amenemhat I flanked by Nekhbet, Horus, Anubis, and Wadjet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Family register sampler

Family register sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet of a lion-headed Bastet

Amulet of a lion-headed Bastet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 853c664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of an ancestral king

Statuette of an ancestral king

Artist not stated in the record · 380–246 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a garment with embroidered inscription

Fragment of a garment with embroidered inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 870–892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I

Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mahdi flag

Mahdi flag

Artist not stated in the record · 1882-1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of an old woman

Marble statue of an old woman

Artist not stated in the record · 14–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab

Scarab

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab

Scarab

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C. ?

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument for the Monk Bonafede, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for the Monk Bonafede

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1800–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, Roman Altar Dedicated to Mars and Roman Standards, by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

Ornament Design, Roman Altar Dedicated to Mars and Roman Standards

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Sakhmet, "Lady of the Mound-Above-Amun"

Statue of Sakhmet, "Lady of the Mound-Above-Amun"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Easter Sepulchre, by Vinzenz Fischer, German, 1729 - 1810

Design for an Easter Sepulchre

Vinzenz Fischer, German, 1729 - 1810 · ca. 1757

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. 1005 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 7484566 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 06:59 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.