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 “Sistrum with a dedication referring to a king” — 64 records examined, 27 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.
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
Dedication Page, by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

Dedication Page

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trotting horse, by Giambologna

Trotting horse

Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Public domainThe Met
Dedication Page, by Carlo Maria Pozzi

Dedication Page

Carlo Maria Pozzi · 1708

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, by Giambologna

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Public domainThe Met
Dedication Page, by Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763

Dedication Page

Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King Clovis I

King Clovis I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
Dedication page, by Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663

Dedication page

Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · 1662

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Ceilings Designed by Carlo Maria Pozzi, by Carlo Maria Pozzi

Album of Prints: Ceilings Designed by Carlo Maria Pozzi

Carlo Maria Pozzi · 1708

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shrine sistrum of King Apries

Shrine sistrum of King Apries

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770

Design for Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · ca. 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Dedication page, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths), by Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663

Dedication page, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · after 1662

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of King David

Head of King David

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Public domainThe Met
Dedication, by Simon Julien, French, 1735 - 1800

Dedication

Simon Julien, French, 1735 - 1800 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Vase After the Antique, by Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835

Vase After the Antique

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Censer with seated king, by Maya artist(s)

Censer with seated king

Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page of "Histoire militaire de Flandre depuis l'Anée 1690, jusqu'en 1694 inclusivement", by I. Oger, French, active 18th c.

Title Page of "Histoire militaire de Flandre depuis l'Anée 1690, jusqu'en 1694 inclusivement"

I. Oger, French, active 18th c. · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Horus as a falcon protecting King Nectanebo II

Statue of Horus as a falcon protecting King Nectanebo II

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dedication Letter, by Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763

Dedication Letter

Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude

Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sheet music for the “Postal March and Two Step”, by Howley, Haviland and Dresser

Sheet music for the “Postal March and Two Step”

Howley, Haviland and Dresser · 1902

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. 1412 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. 2362349 matched · 40 examined · 26 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.