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 portrait bust of a girl” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 07:54 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.
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Peasant Girl, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Portrait of a Peasant Girl

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze portrait bust of a girl

Bronze portrait bust of a girl

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

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
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Wildflower, by Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912

Wildflower

Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oval table, by David Roentgen

Oval table

David Roentgen · ca. 1774–80

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Oil Lamp.

Design for an Oil Lamp.

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

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

Longcase clock

Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Clock

Design for a Clock

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean-François Oeben

Mechanical table

Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Costumed Figure, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

Portrait of a Costumed Figure

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1885

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
(Bust of a Girl), by Henry Linder, born Brooklyn, NY 1854-died New York City 1910

(Bust of a Girl)

Henry Linder, born Brooklyn, NY 1854-died New York City 1910 · ca. 1886-1902

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
Portrait of a Young Girl, by Mary Jane Simes, born Baltimore, MD 1807-died Baltimore, MD 1872

Portrait of a Young Girl

Mary Jane Simes, born Baltimore, MD 1807-died Baltimore, MD 1872 · 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Low cabinet (meuble à hauteur d'appui) (one of a pair), by André Charles Boulle

Low cabinet (meuble à hauteur d'appui) (one of a pair)

André Charles Boulle · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Beatrice Cenci

Portrait of Beatrice Cenci

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800-1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Low cabinet (meuble à hauteur d'appui) (one of a pair), by André Charles Boulle

Low cabinet (meuble à hauteur d'appui) (one of a pair)

André Charles Boulle · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
La Bohémienne

La Bohémienne

Artist not stated in the record · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze portrait of a man

Bronze portrait of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Girl, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Portrait of a Girl

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · n.d.

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
Portrait of a Young Girl, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Portrait of a Young Girl

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1909

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. 2164 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. 3856641 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-30 07:54 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.