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. 21 shown for “Scarab seal and modern impression: Osiris flanked by protective deities” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:54 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 seal and modern impression: Osiris flanked by protective deities

Scarab seal and modern impression: Osiris flanked by protective deities

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Miniature Chest of Drawers containing Plaster Seal Impressions

Miniature Chest of Drawers containing Plaster Seal Impressions

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene

Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2250–2150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bristol-New York Government Packet Service

Bristol-New York Government Packet Service

Artist not stated in the record · May 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab with Inscription Referring to Osiris

Scarab with Inscription Referring to Osiris

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Membership Certificate, Society of Journeymen Cabinet-Makers

Membership Certificate, Society of Journeymen Cabinet-Makers

Artist not stated in the record · August 2, 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Medal, by Victor David Brenner, American, b. Lithuania, 1871 - 1924

Medal

Victor David Brenner, American, b. Lithuania, 1871 - 1924 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design in Berlin Wool Work, by J. Bedford & Co., English

Design in Berlin Wool Work

J. Bedford & Co., English · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: human figure flanked by sphinxes, birds

Cylinder seal and modern impression: human figure flanked by sphinxes, birds

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Chimneypiece, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: snake god and deities with hands and feet in the form of snakes, scorpions, and goats

Cylinder seal and modern impression: snake god and deities with hands and feet in the form of snakes, scorpions, and goats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2350–2150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Bell Towers, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Two Bell Towers

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: goddess leading a worshiper to a seated deity; bull god

Cylinder seal and modern impression: goddess leading a worshiper to a seated deity; bull god

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 20th–19th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
3c Washington top sheet margin strip of four on cover

3c Washington top sheet margin strip of four on cover

Artist not stated in the record · June 24, 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: worshiper with an animal offering before a seated deity

Cylinder seal and modern impression: worshiper with an animal offering before a seated deity

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480–1450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Mantlepiece, from "Cheminées a la Modern"

Design for Mantlepiece, from "Cheminées a la Modern"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: palmette tree flanked by winged griffin and caprid; figure between them with raised hands; ingot

Cylinder seal and modern impression: palmette tree flanked by winged griffin and caprid; figure between them with raised hands; ingot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder seal and modern impression: battle of the gods

Cylinder seal and modern impression: battle of the gods

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2350–2150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder seal and modern impression: demons and animals

Cylinder seal and modern impression: demons and animals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century BC

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. 44 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1691443 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 15:54 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.