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 “Stamp seal (scarab) with anthropomorphic figure” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 10:29 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.
Stamp seal (scarab) with anthropomorphic figure

Stamp seal (scarab) with anthropomorphic figure

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–early 7th century BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Design, by Johann Ladenspelder, German, 1515 - ca. 1580

Ornamental Design

Johann Ladenspelder, German, 1515 - ca. 1580 · ca. 1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"

Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"

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

Public domainThe Met
Special passport for William Callahan

Special passport for William Callahan

Artist not stated in the record · 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab with Figure of Winged Seth-Baal

Scarab with Figure of Winged Seth-Baal

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 400–600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Figure Sketches, Catskill, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Figure Sketches, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (scarab) with two-figure contest scene (?)

Stamp seal (scarab) with two-figure contest scene (?)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scarab with Figure of Seth-Baal on a Lion

Scarab with Figure of Seth-Baal on a Lion

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

Public domainThe Met
Stamp seal (scarab) with two-figure contest scene

Stamp seal (scarab) with two-figure contest scene

Artist not stated in the record · second half of 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars

Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2900 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ibex-Shaped Design Amulet Inscribed With A Crocodile and A Fish

Ibex-Shaped Design Amulet Inscribed With A Crocodile and A Fish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stamp seal (scarab) with animal

Stamp seal (scarab) with animal

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–7th century BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Stamp seal (scarab) with animal

Stamp seal (scarab) with animal

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stamp seal (scarab) with animal

Stamp seal (scarab) with animal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–7th century 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. 265 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 285901 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 2026-09-09 10:29 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.