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 “Tile fragment with a head of a prisoner” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 18:15 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.
Tile fragment with a head of a prisoner

Tile fragment with a head of a prisoner

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile fragment

Tile fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment with Parts of Heads of Prisoners

Relief Fragment with Parts of Heads of Prisoners

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Tile from a Mihrab (Prayer Niche)

Tile from a Mihrab (Prayer Niche)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

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
Floor tile from the Mecca Flats Apartments in Chicago, Illinois, by Edbrooke & Burnham, American, 1879 - 1892

Floor tile from the Mecca Flats Apartments in Chicago, Illinois

Edbrooke & Burnham, American, 1879 - 1892 · 1891-1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples

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

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
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosaic floor panel

Mosaic floor panel

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a sculptured statue base depicting an Asiatic prisoner

Fragment of a sculptured statue base depicting an Asiatic prisoner

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Image of Phoenix

Tile with Image of Phoenix

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief fragment with a cobra on the royal head

Relief fragment with a cobra on the royal head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2020–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prisoner jar

Prisoner jar

Artist not stated in the record · 200–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a terracotta architectural tile

Fragment of a terracotta architectural tile

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble female figure

Marble female figure

Artist not stated in the record · 2700 – 2500

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

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. 17727 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3907623 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-05 18:15 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.