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 “Belt with Profiles of Half-Length Figures” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:20 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.
Belt with Profiles of Half-Length Figures

Belt with Profiles of Half-Length Figures

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–1400

Public domainThe Met
Cream tunic shirt with rhinestones and belt, by Unidentified

Cream tunic shirt with rhinestones and belt

Unidentified · 1980s-1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King's attendant, by Giuseppe Gori

King's attendant

Giuseppe Gori · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Dress, shawl, and belt with multicolored geometric pattern, by Unidentified

Dress, shawl, and belt with multicolored geometric pattern

Unidentified · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Master of the Female Half-Lengths

Virgin and Child

Master of the Female Half-Lengths · ca. 1525–50

Public domainThe Met
Purple and blue floral print dress with purple belt, by Unidentified

Purple and blue floral print dress with purple belt

Unidentified · 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Sir George Wombwell and His Brothers, by Richard Dighton, British, 1795–1880

Portrait of Sir George Wombwell and His Brothers

Richard Dighton, British, 1795–1880 · 1870–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
studies of costumed male figures, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

studies of costumed male figures

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Padmapani Lokeshvara

The Bodhisattva Padmapani Lokeshvara

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Old Man Seen from Behind, Profile to Right: Half Figure

Old Man Seen from Behind, Profile to Right: Half Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1631

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Child Saint Sambandar

Child Saint Sambandar

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Mauve floral dress and belt with black capelet, by Unidentified

Mauve floral dress and belt with black capelet

Unidentified · 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harlequin, by Höchst Manufactory

Harlequin

Höchst Manufactory · ca. 1750–53

Public domainThe Met
Woodcarving of a slave trader with enslaved female figure, by Unidentified

Woodcarving of a slave trader with enslaved female figure

Unidentified · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Blue velveteen jacket with embellishments and matching belt, by Unidentified

Blue velveteen jacket with embellishments and matching belt

Unidentified · late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court official from a commemorative altar, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Court official from a commemorative altar

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Boy, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Boy

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Emperor Antoninus Pius, by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Emperor Antoninus Pius

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · 1519–24

Public domainThe Met
Five Grotesque Figures, by Pier Francesco Mola, Italian, 1612–1666

Five Grotesque Figures

Pier Francesco Mola, Italian, 1612–1666 · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta figure in an armchair

Terracotta figure in an armchair

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Rotherhithe, by James McNeill Whistler, American, 1834–1903

Rotherhithe

James McNeill Whistler, American, 1834–1903 · 1860

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. 1721 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. 285 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-27 08:20 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.