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. 14 shown for “Uninscribed Cartouche-Shaped Plaque” — 26 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:22 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.
Uninscribed Cartouche-Shaped Plaque

Uninscribed Cartouche-Shaped Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE

Public domainThe Met
L’ASTRONOMIE / LA GÉOGRAPHIE

L’ASTRONOMIE / LA GÉOGRAPHIE

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cartouche-Shaped Plaque Fragment

Cartouche-Shaped Plaque Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Renaissance-Style Sideboard in Plan and Elevation, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Renaissance-Style Sideboard in Plan and Elevation

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calligraphic Plaque

Calligraphic Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · probably late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche-shaped plaque with the names of Apries

Cartouche-shaped plaque with the names of Apries

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Silver votive plaque

Silver votive plaque

Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Secretary, by Martin Carlin

Secretary

Martin Carlin · ca. 1781–85

Public domainThe Met
Plaque in the Form of a Cartouche; two ankhs; ankh, two nefers

Plaque in the Form of a Cartouche; two ankhs; ankh, two nefers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Foundation plaque inscribed with the cartouche of Psusennes I

Foundation plaque inscribed with the cartouche of Psusennes I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1051–1002 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Foundation plaque inscribed with the cartouche of Psusennes I

Foundation plaque inscribed with the cartouche of Psusennes I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1051–1002 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Writing Box with Lattice and Flower Design

Writing Box with Lattice and Flower Design

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Amulets and string of beads

Amulets and string of beads

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

Public domainThe Met
Jewelry Elements

Jewelry Elements

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–16th century

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. 27 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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 23:22 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.