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 “Bronze bust of Minerva” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:08 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.
Bronze bust of Minerva

Bronze bust of Minerva

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a medal, Minerva crowing a bust of Louis XV, by Benjamin Duvivier, French, 1730 - 1819

Design for a medal, Minerva crowing a bust of Louis XV

Benjamin Duvivier, French, 1730 - 1819 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase clock, by Hermann Achenbach

Longcase clock

Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument for Poet Maria Maddalena Morelli, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for Poet Maria Maddalena Morelli

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewish Woman of Algiers, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Jewish Woman of Algiers

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Allegories of Sculpture, Architecture and Music, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Allegories of Sculpture, Architecture and Music

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of Hevajra

Bust of Hevajra

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Clock, by Unknown

Design for Clock

Unknown · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman from the French Colonies, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Woman from the French Colonies

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Design for Doors, by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Design for Doors

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Minerva clock, by Matthew Boulton

Minerva clock

Matthew Boulton · ca. 1772, with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Frontispiece, by Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763

Allegorical Frontispiece

Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze bust of an Amazon

Bronze bust of an Amazon

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Three Paneling Designs, by François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797

Three Paneling Designs

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, by Giambologna

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Public domainThe Met
Ornamented Gueridon Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Ornamented Gueridon Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Original dies)

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Original dies)

Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Obelisk clock with a Franklin movement, by David Roentgen

Obelisk clock with a Franklin movement

David Roentgen · ca. 1785–90

Public domainThe Met
Libertas Americana, United States, 1782-3

Libertas Americana, United States, 1782-3

Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mirror

Bronze mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Design with Side Paneling, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Chimneypiece Design with Side Paneling

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1727

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. 457 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2859949 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 06:08 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.