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 statue of an aristocratic boy” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:07 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 statue of an aristocratic boy

Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy

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

Public domainThe Met
Second Empire Salon, by Unknown, French

Second Empire Salon

Unknown, French · 1850–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rolltop desk, by David Roentgen

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Andirons and Sconce of Gilt Bronze, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

Design for Two Andirons and Sconce of Gilt Bronze

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1777–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Lobby card for The Bronze Venus

Lobby card for The Bronze Venus

Artist not stated in the record · 1943

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
Window card for The Bronze Venus, by Unidentified

Window card for The Bronze Venus

Unidentified · 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour), by Martin Carlin

Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1768

Public domainThe Met
Fountain in bronze, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

Fountain in bronze

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statue of Eros sleeping

Bronze statue of Eros sleeping

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

Public domainThe Met
Porcelain Figure Mounted as a Two-Light Candelabra (One of a Pair)

Porcelain Figure Mounted as a Two-Light Candelabra (One of a Pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th or 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sword and Scabbard

Sword and Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 60 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Porcelain Figure Mounted as a Two-Light Candelabra (One of a Pair)

Porcelain Figure Mounted as a Two-Light Candelabra (One of a Pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th or 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of vases

Pair of vases

Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Lafayette (model for colossal statue), by Cyrus E. Dallin, born Springville, UT 1861-died Arlington Heights, MA 1944

Lafayette (model for colossal statue)

Cyrus E. Dallin, born Springville, UT 1861-died Arlington Heights, MA 1944 · 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot), by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Public domainThe Met
La danseuse de corde, by Petitpierre et Cie, Nantes, France, 1770–1848

La danseuse de corde

Petitpierre et Cie, Nantes, France, 1770–1848 · 1785–90

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
figure study for a fountain design, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

figure study for a fountain design

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statue of a camillus (acolyte)

Bronze statue of a camillus (acolyte)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14–54 CE

Public domainThe Met
Aristocrates Being Carried, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Aristocrates Being Carried

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze horse

Bronze horse

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Inkwell

Inkwell

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

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. 686 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2993978 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 16:07 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.