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 the Name of Seti I” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 13:57 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 the Name of Seti I

Tile with the Name of Seti I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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
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
Plan et Elevation du Kiosque de Commercy dont les huit croisées ne sont garnis que de Stors d'eau., by Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763

Plan et Elevation du Kiosque de Commercy dont les huit croisées ne sont garnis que de Stors d'eau.

Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763 · 1753

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
Tile, by Hamilton Tile Works Co., founded 1884

Tile

Hamilton Tile Works Co., founded 1884 · 1883–96

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by United States Encaustic Tile Company

Tile

United States Encaustic Tile Company · 1877–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Elévation à trois faces d'un Bâtiment Chinois nommé le Trefle situé à un des bouts du Canal du Jardin Royal de Lunéville, by Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763

Elévation à trois faces d'un Bâtiment Chinois nommé le Trefle situé à un des bouts du Canal du Jardin Royal de Lunéville

Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a votive tile with cartouche of Seti II

Fragment of a votive tile with cartouche of Seti II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J.G. & J.F. Low Art Tile Works, 1883 – 1902

Tile

J.G. & J.F. Low Art Tile Works, 1883 – 1902 · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shabti of Seti I

Shabti of Seti I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Allegories of the Four Continents

Allegories of the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · dated 824 AH/1421 CE

Public domainThe Met
Allegories of the Four Continents

Allegories of the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Allegories of the Four Continents

Allegories of the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Allegories of the Four Continents

Allegories of the Four Continents

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by Addison B. Le Boutellier, 1872 – 1951

Tile

Addison B. Le Boutellier, 1872 – 1951 · ca. 1902

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. 2947 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. 7474821 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-07 13:57 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.