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. 15 shown for “Bronze statuette of Hercle (Roman Hercules)” — 64 records examined, 38 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 Hercle (Roman Hercules)

Bronze statuette of Hercle (Roman Hercules)

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fan: Capriccio with Roman Ruins and the Farnese Hercules, by Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian, 1691 - 1765

Design for a Fan: Capriccio with Roman Ruins and the Farnese Hercules

Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian, 1691 - 1765 · ca. 1750

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
Stag, by Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875

Stag

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand

Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Firefighter Statuette, by unknown

Firefighter Statuette

unknown · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Buddha

Seated Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Bronze diskos thrower

Bronze diskos thrower

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 480–460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statuette of Hercules

Bronze statuette of Hercules

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

Public domainThe Met
Bronze mirror

Bronze mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statuette of a horse

Bronze statuette of a horse

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

Public domainThe Met
Bronze horse

Bronze horse

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statuette of Cybele on a cart drawn by lions

Bronze statuette of Cybele on a cart drawn by lions

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

Public domainThe Met
The Mountain Man, by Frederic Remington

The Mountain Man

Frederic Remington · 1903, cast by March 1907

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statuette of Cupid

Bronze statuette of Cupid

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

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. 398 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. 2860553 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 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.