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 “A female immortal on a porcine animal” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:49 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.
Kneeling female figure, by Mexica artist(s)

Kneeling female figure

Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
A female immortal on a porcine animal

A female immortal on a porcine animal

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Merry Company on a Terrace, by Jan Steen

Merry Company on a Terrace

Jan Steen · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry: a Daoist female Immortal and attendant under a pine

Tapestry: a Daoist female Immortal and attendant under a pine

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos"), by Pacetti, Vincenzo

Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos")

Pacetti, Vincenzo · 27 BCE–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Female immortal with a basket

Female immortal with a basket

Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Standing figure of a female Immortal, by Formerly attributed to Zhang Mei (active early-mid 10th century)

Standing figure of a female Immortal

Formerly attributed to Zhang Mei (active early-mid 10th century) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
An immortal and a deer looking at a dragon overhead, by Tuan Shigen (mid 18th century)

An immortal and a deer looking at a dragon overhead

Tuan Shigen (mid 18th century) · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of andirons, by Pere Jean-Antoine Ducerceau

Pair of andirons

Pere Jean-Antoine Ducerceau · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lion (one of a pair), by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner

Lion (one of a pair)

Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732

Public domainThe Met
A Medal of Napoleon Bonaparte as President of the Italian Republic, verso; Hebe Gives Immortality to Hercules's Charioteer, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

A Medal of Napoleon Bonaparte as President of the Italian Republic, verso; Hebe Gives Immortality to Hercules's Charioteer

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1802–04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair), by Pietro Bernini

Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)

Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated female

Seated female

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eyema byeri (reliquary guardian figure), by Okak-Fang artist

Eyema byeri (reliquary guardian figure)

Okak-Fang artist · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls

Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bringing a lute to an immortal's pavilion 攜琴仙觀圖, by Formerly attributed to Guo Zhongshu (傳)郭忠恕 (910-977)

Bringing a lute to an immortal's pavilion 攜琴仙觀圖

Formerly attributed to Guo Zhongshu (傳)郭忠恕 (910-977) · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female figure, by Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists

Female figure

Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
The Peach Festival of the Queen Mother of the West, by Formerly attributed to Fang Chunnian (ca. 1225-1264)

The Peach Festival of the Queen Mother of the West

Formerly attributed to Fang Chunnian (ca. 1225-1264) · 17th-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. 470 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3422235 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 17:49 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.