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 “Shroud of Hori” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 08:14 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.
Shroud of Hori

Shroud of Hori

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

Public domainThe Met
Austroeupatorium inulifolium (Kunth) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Austroeupatorium inulifolium (Kunth) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1935 to 10 Dec 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shroud

Shroud

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250–1000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Austroeupatorium inulifolium (Kunth) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Austroeupatorium inulifolium (Kunth) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1935 to 10 Dec 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mummy with a Painted Mask Depicting a Woman Holding a Goblet

Mummy with a Painted Mask Depicting a Woman Holding a Goblet

Artist not stated in the record · 270–280 CE

Public domainThe Met
Nekozane at Horikiri Canal No. 96 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Horie, Nekozane), by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Nekozane at Horikiri Canal No. 96 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Horie, Nekozane)

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shroud

Shroud

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 125 CE

Public domainThe Met
Lecanora chalcophila Vezda

Lecanora chalcophila Vezda

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painted Shroud Fragment

Painted Shroud Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Angels Carrying the Holy Cross and Shroud, by Mattia Preti, Italian, 1613 - 1699

Angels Carrying the Holy Cross and Shroud

Mattia Preti, Italian, 1613 - 1699 · 1661–66

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painted Shroud Fragment

Painted Shroud Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Karatsu ware tea bowl, hori-mishima type

Karatsu ware tea bowl, hori-mishima type

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bead Shroud of Tabakenkhonsu

Bead Shroud of Tabakenkhonsu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pot fragment inscribed with the name Hori

Pot fragment inscribed with the name Hori

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Evening bell from mist-shrouded temple (left); Autumn moon over Lake Dongting (right), by An Gyeon

Evening bell from mist-shrouded temple (left); Autumn moon over Lake Dongting (right)

An Gyeon · ca. 1450–1500

Public domainThe Met
Shroud of a Woman Wearing a Fringed Tunic

Shroud of a Woman Wearing a Fringed Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 170–200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bead Net

Bead Net

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a painted mummy shroud

Fragment of a painted mummy shroud

Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–3rd century CE

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. 217 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 2858645 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 08:14 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.