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. 16 shown for “Sistrum with the Name of King Amasis” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:44 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 the Name of King Amasis

Sistrum with the Name of King Amasis

Artist not stated in the record · 570–526 BCE

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
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Amasis Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Amasis Painter · ca. 550–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Alsophila manniana (Hook.) R.M. Tryon

Alsophila manniana (Hook.) R.M. Tryon

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of Sistrum Handle with the name of Amasis

Fragment of Sistrum Handle with the name of Amasis

Artist not stated in the record · 570–526 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sistrum alfredensis

Sistrum alfredensis

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of Sistrum Handle of Amasis

Fragment of Sistrum Handle of Amasis

Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sistrum ferrugineum rubidum

Sistrum ferrugineum rubidum

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Senwosret III as a Sphinx

Senwosret III as a Sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1840 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of Sistrum Handle

Fragment of Sistrum Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Statue of a kneeling Kushite king

Statue of a kneeling Kushite king

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

Public domainThe Met
Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I

Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Shrine sistrum of King Apries

Shrine sistrum of King Apries

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stela of King Raneb

Stela of King Raneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2880 BCE

Public domainThe Met
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
Amenhotep III and his Mother, Mutemwia, in a Kiosk, by Nina de Garis Davies

Amenhotep III and his Mother, Mutemwia, in a Kiosk

Nina de Garis Davies · 1914; original ca. 1386–1347 BCE

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. 1434 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 7473571 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:44 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.