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. 22 shown for “Statuette of a Late Middle Kingdom Queen” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 22:34 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.
Statuette of a Late Middle Kingdom Queen

Statuette of a Late Middle Kingdom Queen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825–1750 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, beads, tripod, with case

Bouquet holder, beads, tripod, with case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1869-1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen

Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 270–250 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, leaf motif

Bouquet holder, leaf motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Menat necklace from Malqata

Menat necklace from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, bellflower and rope motif, spade handle

Bouquet holder, bellflower and rope motif, spade handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Queen's Face

Fragment of a Queen's Face

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, engraved medallions

Bouquet holder, engraved medallions

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen

Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen

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

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, female figure with tobacco leaf pattern, rat-tail handle

Bouquet holder, female figure with tobacco leaf pattern, rat-tail handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Face from a Composite Statue, probably Queen Tiye

Face from a Composite Statue, probably Queen Tiye

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, rope motif, spade handle

Bouquet holder, rope motif, spade handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of the Personification of a City

Statuette of the Personification of a City

Artist not stated in the record · 300–500

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, incised arches

Bouquet holder, incised arches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Offering table with statuette of Sehetepib

Offering table with statuette of Sehetepib

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1775 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Figure

Figure

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a horse

Bronze statuette of a horse

Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, grape and leaf motif

Bouquet holder, grape and leaf motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Statuette of Thutmose III

Ritual Statuette of Thutmose III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Middle Kingdom statuette, reinscribed for Harsiese High Priest of Memphis in the Third Intermediate Period

Middle Kingdom statuette, reinscribed for Harsiese High Priest of Memphis in the Third Intermediate Period

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1550 B.C.; reused dates to about 8th Century B.C.

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. 1271 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. 3957744 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 22:34 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.