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. 12 shown for “Statue of the Priest Harnefer, son of Nesmin and of Nehemesrattawy” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:56 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Statue of the Priest Harnefer, son of Nesmin and of Nehemesrattawy

Statue of the Priest Harnefer, son of Nesmin and of Nehemesrattawy

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Block Statue of the God's Father Pameniuwedja, son of Nesmin and Nestefnut

Block Statue of the God's Father Pameniuwedja, son of Nesmin and Nestefnut

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
The God's Father, Prophet of Amun in Karnak, Ankhpakhered, son of Nesmin and Tadisetdiankh

The God's Father, Prophet of Amun in Karnak, Ankhpakhered, son of Nesmin and Tadisetdiankh

Artist not stated in the record · 380–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Harnefer son of Paheb (Phibis) and Takerheb (Kalibis)

Harnefer son of Paheb (Phibis) and Takerheb (Kalibis)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 280 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Block Statue of a Prophet of Montu and Scribe Djedkhonsuefankh, son of Khonsumes and Taat

Block Statue of a Prophet of Montu and Scribe Djedkhonsuefankh, son of Khonsumes and Taat

Artist not stated in the record · 690–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Padiamunrenebwaset, son of Irethoreru, holding a seated statue of Osiris

Padiamunrenebwaset, son of Irethoreru, holding a seated statue of Osiris

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Book of the Dead of Khamhor

Book of the Dead of Khamhor

Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stela of Tjanetdinetiset and Djedbastet

Stela of Tjanetdinetiset and Djedbastet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–721 BCE

Public domainThe Met
West wall of the chapel of the mastaba Kaemsenu with niches for Iretnub, Kaemsenu and Werdjedptah

West wall of the chapel of the mastaba Kaemsenu with niches for Iretnub, Kaemsenu and Werdjedptah

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2420–2250 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. 34 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:56 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.