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. 19 shown for “Bone figurine with articulated limbs” — 47 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 13:52 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.
Bone figurine with articulated limbs

Bone figurine with articulated limbs

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th or 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Leopardus pardalis melanurus

Leopardus pardalis melanurus

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figurine with articulated limbs

Figurine with articulated limbs

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Acinonyx jubatus raineyi

Acinonyx jubatus raineyi

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figurine with articulated limbs

Figurine with articulated limbs

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 5th Century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Acinonyx jubatus raineyi

Acinonyx jubatus raineyi

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Tusk Figurine of a Man

A Tusk Figurine of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3900–3500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Caracal caracal

Caracal caracal

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scepter with profile figures, by Maya artist(s)

Scepter with profile figures

Maya artist(s) · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Leopardus pardalis

Leopardus pardalis

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Mar 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Deity figure, by Maya artist(s)

Deity figure

Maya artist(s) · 200–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Leopardus wiedii pirrensis

Leopardus wiedii pirrensis

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Roch and the Angel, by Master of the Biberach Holy Kinship

Saint Roch and the Angel

Master of the Biberach Holy Kinship · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Caracal caracal

Caracal caracal

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leopardus pardalis

Leopardus pardalis

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acinonyx jubatus

Acinonyx jubatus

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caracal caracal

Caracal caracal

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Mar 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leopardus wiedii vigens

Leopardus wiedii vigens

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leopardus wiedii vigens

Leopardus wiedii vigens

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1965

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 275554 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-31 13:52 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.