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. 17 shown for “Uninscribed Funerary Cone” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 09:43 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 Funerary Cone

Uninscribed Funerary Cone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2124–1981 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of funerary pall

Fragment of funerary pall

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uninscribed Funerary Cone

Uninscribed Funerary Cone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2124–1981 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral (Funerary) Monument Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Sepulchral (Funerary) Monument Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cone

Cone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Funerary Monument Designs, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Two Funerary Monument Designs

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Royal Herald Intef

Funerary Cone of the Royal Herald Intef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Funerary Monument Designs, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Two Funerary Monument Designs

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Royal Herald Intef

Funerary Cone of the Royal Herald Intef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Funerary Monument Designs, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Two Funerary Monument Designs

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary cone of Ahmose

Funerary cone of Ahmose

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Cone the Wab-Priest Aakheperkareseneb

Funerary Cone the Wab-Priest Aakheperkareseneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

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. 379 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. 3213 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 09:43 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.