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 with a fragment of a captive from the palace of Ramesses II” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:38 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 with a fragment of a captive from the palace of Ramesses II

Tile with a fragment of a captive from the palace of Ramesses II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

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
Tile with a fragment from a head of a Mesopotamian captive from the palace of Ramesses II

Tile with a fragment from a head of a Mesopotamian captive from the palace of Ramesses II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

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
Tile with a head of a Mesopotamian captive from the palace of Ramesses II

Tile with a head of a Mesopotamian captive from the palace of Ramesses II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Entrance with Arch, by Giovanni Antonio Galliari, 1718 - 1783

Stage Design: Palace Entrance with Arch

Giovanni Antonio Galliari, 1718 - 1783 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with a head of a Mesopotamian captive from the palace of Ramesses II

Tile with a head of a Mesopotamian captive from the palace of Ramesses II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile fragment

Tile fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with a bound Nubian from the the side of a dais

Tile with a bound Nubian from the the side of a dais

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amuletic plaque of Paser, the Vizier of Seti I and Ramesses II, by Paser

Amuletic plaque of Paser, the Vizier of Seti I and Ramesses II

Paser · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Frieze in Classical Style, A Villa Upon a Hill, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Frieze in Classical Style, A Villa Upon a Hill

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile Inlay from the Palace of Ramesses II, Torso of a Mesopotamian or Syrian Captive

Tile Inlay from the Palace of Ramesses II, Torso of a Mesopotamian or Syrian Captive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile (fragment)

Wall tile (fragment)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shabti of Paser, the Vizier of Seti I and Ramesses II, by Paser

Shabti of Paser, the Vizier of Seti I and Ramesses II

Paser · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sofa and Mirror, Portrait Room, Royal Palace; Warsaw, Poland, by Jean Louis Prieur, French, 1732 - 1795

Design for Sofa and Mirror, Portrait Room, Royal Palace; Warsaw, Poland

Jean Louis Prieur, French, 1732 - 1795 · ca. 1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile depicting a Syrian from the step of a dais

Tile depicting a Syrian from the step of a dais

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment, by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904

Fragment

Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scrapbook fragment with five pictures adhered to it

Scrapbook fragment with five pictures adhered to it

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment, by Duplan Silk Corporation, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, USA

Fragment

Duplan Silk Corporation, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, USA · 1914–1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an underglaze cobalt-blue-painted wall tile

Fragment of an underglaze cobalt-blue-painted wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century (?)

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. 4532 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. 4059460 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-28 06:38 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.