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. 18 shown for “Shrine sistrum of King Apries” — 46 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:14 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.
Shrine sistrum of King Apries

Shrine sistrum of King Apries

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mikania iltisii R.M. King & H. Rob.

Mikania iltisii R.M. King & H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1984 to 26 Mar 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sistrum with a dedication referring to a king

Sistrum with a dedication referring to a king

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Neomirandea biflora R.M. King & H. Rob.

Neomirandea biflora R.M. King & H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1984 to 26 Mar 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sistrum Inscribed with the Names of King Teti

Sistrum Inscribed with the Names of King Teti

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2323–2291 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sistrum alfredensis

Sistrum alfredensis

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of a goddess, probably Nehemetaway or Nebethetepet

Statue of a goddess, probably Nehemetaway or Nebethetepet

Artist not stated in the record · 550–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sistrum ferrugineum rubidum

Sistrum ferrugineum rubidum

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Outer Coffin of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Outer Coffin of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cenchrus alopecuroides Thunb.

Cenchrus alopecuroides Thunb.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 May 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Menat with royal name Wahibre

Menat with royal name Wahibre

Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Echinops graecus Mill.

Echinops graecus Mill.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cerastium arvense L.

Cerastium arvense L.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mentha arvensis L.

Mentha arvensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potentilla sp.

Potentilla sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Apr 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus abieticola

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus abieticola

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Oct 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive Tabernacle Shrine

Votive Tabernacle Shrine

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Xyris subulata Ruiz & Pav.

Xyris subulata Ruiz & Pav.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1984 to 26 Mar 1984

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2890477 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 01:14 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.