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. 18 shown for “Block Statue of the God's Father Pameniuwedja, son of Nesmin and Nestefnut” — 46 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:22 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.
Block Statue of the God's Father Pameniuwedja, son of Nesmin and Nestefnut

Block Statue of the God's Father Pameniuwedja, son of Nesmin and Nestefnut

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Birth of Christ, by Antonio Cavallucci, Italian, 1752 - 1795

Birth of Christ

Antonio Cavallucci, Italian, 1752 - 1795 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of the Priest Harnefer, son of Nesmin and of Nehemesrattawy

Statue of the Priest Harnefer, son of Nesmin and of Nehemesrattawy

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
God the Father

God the Father

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The God's Father, Prophet of Amun in Karnak, Ankhpakhered, son of Nesmin and Tadisetdiankh

The God's Father, Prophet of Amun in Karnak, Ankhpakhered, son of Nesmin and Tadisetdiankh

Artist not stated in the record · 380–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with God the Father and Angels, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664

Virgin and Child with God the Father and Angels

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1647–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Block Statue of Nedjem

Block Statue of Nedjem

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1197–1166 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
God the Father and Angels

God the Father and Angels

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumn in the Guise of Priapus (one of a pair), by Pietro Bernini

Autumn in the Guise of Priapus (one of a pair)

Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Letter D of a Pictorial Alphabet: Dieu (God), by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for the Letter D of a Pictorial Alphabet: Dieu (God)

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fountains; architectural details, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Fountains; architectural details

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ascension of the Virgin, by Giuseppe Galeotti, Italian, 1708 - 1778

Ascension of the Virgin

Giuseppe Galeotti, Italian, 1708 - 1778 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vignette, God the Father

Vignette, God the Father

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, from the Life of the Virgin series

The Assumption of the Virgin, from the Life of the Virgin series

Artist not stated in the record · 1510

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orphrey band

Orphrey band

Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3303065 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-08-26 18:22 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.