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 “Sunk Relief Fragment with Part of Offering Inscription and Wadjet Eye” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:31 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.
Sunk Relief Fragment with Part of Offering Inscription and Wadjet Eye

Sunk Relief Fragment with Part of Offering Inscription and Wadjet Eye

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile (fragment)

Wall tile (fragment)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Salome given the Head of John the Baptist [left]; Salome offers the Head of John the Baptist to her Parents [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Salome given the Head of John the Baptist [left]; Salome offers the Head of John the Baptist to her Parents [right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment with Part of a Vertical Inscription

Relief Fragment with Part of a Vertical Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Renaissance Monument in Benedictine Church, Fecamp, Normandy, by Auguste-Pierre Sainte-Marie Famin, French, 1776 – 1859

Renaissance Monument in Benedictine Church, Fecamp, Normandy

Auguste-Pierre Sainte-Marie Famin, French, 1776 – 1859 · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rim fragment of relief chalice with inscription and papyrus plants, associated with 1983.599

Rim fragment of relief chalice with inscription and papyrus plants, associated with 1983.599

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment with a Ship Under Sail

Relief Fragment with a Ship Under Sail

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2465–2458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Eagle, by Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan

Bowl with Eagle

Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 10th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph

Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Door in a garden wall, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Door in a garden wall

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1754

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph

Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph

Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · 1480–89

Public domainThe Met
Architectural fragment

Architectural fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1375-1400

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. 69 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. 3141899 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 06:31 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.