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 hieroglyphs” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 02:11 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 hieroglyphs

Sunk relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bobbins for lace making

Bobbins for lace making

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sunk relief fragment with titles of Nespakashuty

Sunk relief fragment with titles of Nespakashuty

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hieroglyphics, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Hieroglyphics

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised Relief Fragment with Fragmentary Hieroglyphs

Raised Relief Fragment with Fragmentary Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card

Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
L’HISTOIRE, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

L’HISTOIRE

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Tiraz fragment

Tiraz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment with remains of hieroglyphs

Raised relief fragment with remains of hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

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
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
Quilt fragment

Quilt fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Lotiform Chalice

Fragmentary Lotiform Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–1054 BCE or ca. 945–924 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card

Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment with a hieroglyph

Raised relief fragment with a hieroglyph

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

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. 65 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. 283781 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-31 02:11 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.