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. 16 shown for “Bronze statuette of Eros running” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:14 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 statuette of Eros running

Bronze statuette of Eros running

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

Public domainThe Met
Stag, by Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875

Stag

Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875 · mid-19th century

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
Firefighter Statuette, by unknown

Firefighter Statuette

unknown · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of Eros kneeling

Bronze statuette of Eros kneeling

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE or later

Public domainThe Met
Statuette, by Unidentified (French)

Statuette

Unidentified (French)

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

Bronze statuette of Eros sleeping

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

Public domainThe Met
Animal statuette

Animal statuette

Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze youth

Bronze youth

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statuette of Eros seated on a rock

Bronze statuette of Eros seated on a rock

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200 BCE–200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Rothschild lamp, by Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Rothschild lamp

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · ca. 1510–20

Public domainThe Met
Jupiter with a thunderbolt, by Joseph de Levis

Jupiter with a thunderbolt

Joseph de Levis · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and child, by Niccolò Roccatagliata

Virgin and child

Niccolò Roccatagliata · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Bronze Herakles

Bronze Herakles

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statuette of Hercle (Roman Hercules)

Bronze statuette of Hercle (Roman Hercules)

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

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statuette of drunken Herakles

Bronze statuette of drunken Herakles

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

Public domainThe Met
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. 44 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. 2867671 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:14 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.