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. 16 shown for “Tit (Isis knot) from string of amulets” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:21 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.
Tit (Isis knot) from string of amulets

Tit (Isis knot) from string of amulets

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

Public domainThe Met
Badminton racket from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Badminton racket from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tit (Isis knot) amulet

Tit (Isis knot) amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 525–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Badge of a Medal

Design for a Badge of a Medal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tit (Isis knot) amulet

Tit (Isis knot) amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pendant Design, by Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581

Pendant Design

Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581 · 1581

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tit (Isis knot) amulet

Tit (Isis knot) amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–380 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Netted textile

Netted textile

Artist not stated in the record · 300–100 BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tit (Isis knot) amulet

Tit (Isis knot) amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–380 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tit amulet

Tit amulet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Group of 7 amulets

Group of 7 amulets

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

Public domainThe Met
String of Beads and Amulets

String of Beads and Amulets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace with Amulets

Necklace with Amulets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
String of 1 squatting ape, 5 Ba birds, and 2 Horus amulets

String of 1 squatting ape, 5 Ba birds, and 2 Horus amulets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Pectoral of Panekhu

Pectoral of Panekhu

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design Amulet, Back in the Form of a Woman Suckling a Child, Device showing Two Lizards Head-to-tail

Design Amulet, Back in the Form of a Woman Suckling a Child, Device showing Two Lizards Head-to-tail

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2100–2080 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 2963921 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:21 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.