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 “Base for a Statuette” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:11 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.
Base for a Statuette

Base for a Statuette

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Stag, by Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875

Stag

Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875 · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Statuette

Base for a Statuette

Artist not stated in the record · 1470–80

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Candlestick

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1827-1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher

Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1375–1425

Public domainThe Met
Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Artist not stated in the record · 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a female

Statuette of a female

Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 1st millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Figure

Figure

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Alter Lamp

Project for an Alter Lamp

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trotting horse, by Giambologna

Trotting horse

Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Public domainThe Met
Statuette of the Child Amenemhab

Statuette of the Child Amenemhab

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze man and centaur

Bronze man and centaur

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette base

Terracotta statuette base

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette base

Terracotta statuette base

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette base

Terracotta statuette base

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century 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. 12025 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. 2099911 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 2026-08-27 06:11 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.