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 a young satyr” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:53 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 a young satyr

Bronze bust of a young satyr

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design of a Cabinet in the Louis XVI Style

Design of a Cabinet in the Louis XVI Style

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

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
Sheet from a Sketchbook: The Triumph of Silenus; Sacrifice to Bacchus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheet from a Sketchbook: The Triumph of Silenus; Sacrifice to Bacchus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Satyr, by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Satyr

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1510–ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Study for the Violet Sargent Bronze Plaque in the Art Institute of Chicago, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1848 – 1907

Study for the Violet Sargent Bronze Plaque in the Art Institute of Chicago

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1848 – 1907 · 1890

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

Longcase clock

Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
mount

mount

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

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
Design for Majolica Pitcher

Design for Majolica Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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 a Chimneypiece, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Chimneypiece

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a young woman

Bronze statuette of a young woman

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candelabrum

Design for a Candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

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
Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon, by Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612

Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon

Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612 · late 16th century

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
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, by Edgar Degas

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer

Edgar Degas · modeled 1881, cast 1922, modern tutu

Public domainThe Met
Sea Centaur Battles Sea Monster, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sea Centaur Battles Sea Monster

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy

Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy

Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Panel Design, by Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679

Ornament Panel Design

Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679 · 1660–1716

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

Trotting horse

Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Public domainThe Met
Bust of a Young Girl, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Bust of a Young Girl

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 19th 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. 866 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 3858821 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 20:53 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.