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 “Shabti of the High Priest of Thoth Djehutyirdis, born of Nepthysiti” — 45 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 11:21 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.
Shabti of the High Priest of Thoth Djehutyirdis, born of Nepthysiti

Shabti of the High Priest of Thoth Djehutyirdis, born of Nepthysiti

Artist not stated in the record · 380–362 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Calavera for the Priest, by José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican, Aguascalientes, Mexico 1852-died Mexico City, Mexico 1913

Calavera for the Priest

José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican, Aguascalientes, Mexico 1852-died Mexico City, Mexico 1913 · published 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shabti of the High Priest of Thoth Djehutyirdis, born of Nephthysiti

Shabti of the High Priest of Thoth Djehutyirdis, born of Nephthysiti

Artist not stated in the record · 380–362 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: The Division of Priests, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: The Division of Priests

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shabti of the High Priest of Thoth Djehutyirdis, born of Nephthysiti

Shabti of the High Priest of Thoth Djehutyirdis, born of Nephthysiti

Artist not stated in the record · 380–362 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Old Man of Zuni, High Priest (Cacique), by Ira D. Gerald Cassidy, born Covington, KY 1879-died Santa Fe, NM 1934

Old Man of Zuni, High Priest (Cacique)

Ira D. Gerald Cassidy, born Covington, KY 1879-died Santa Fe, NM 1934 · 1924

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
Sketchbook Page: Egyptian Figure, The High Priest, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Egyptian Figure, The High Priest

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stela of Horemkhauef

Stela of Horemkhauef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1640 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dalbergia rimosa var. foliacea (Wall. & Benth.) Thoth.

Dalbergia rimosa var. foliacea (Wall. & Benth.) Thoth.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Mesilla Plaza, by Leon Trousset, born France 1838-died Juarez, Mexico 1917

Old Mesilla Plaza

Leon Trousset, born France 1838-died Juarez, Mexico 1917 · ca. 1885-1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Procession of the Sacrament, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Procession of the Sacrament

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1595 – 1605

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6366205 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 11:21 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.