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 statuette of a kneeling boy holding a hare” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 02:44 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 a kneeling boy holding a hare

Bronze statuette of a kneeling boy holding a hare

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

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of Transience, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664

Allegory of Transience

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1655

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
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Garden Scene from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Garden Scene from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1821–24

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

Trotting horse

Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Public domainThe Met
Oriental Scene, by Jean Honoré Fragonard, French, 1732 - 1806

Oriental Scene

Jean Honoré Fragonard, French, 1732 - 1806 · ca. 1770

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
Le Galand Chasseur, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Le Galand Chasseur

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of a kneeling Kushite king

Statue of a kneeling Kushite king

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury, by William Henry Hunt, British, 1790–1864

The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury

William Henry Hunt, British, 1790–1864 · 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Buddha

Seated Buddha

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

Public domainThe Met
Adoration of the Shepherds, by Ubaldo Gandolfi, Italian, 1728 – 1781

Adoration of the Shepherds

Ubaldo Gandolfi, Italian, 1728 – 1781 · 1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of the Child Amenemhab

Statuette of the Child Amenemhab

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 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 mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Clock and key

Clock and key

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1780-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Statuette of Thutmose III

Ritual Statuette of Thutmose III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
First Communion

First Communion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Chase County High School (Kansas) baseball team

Photograph of Chase County High School (Kansas) baseball team

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a child with a bunch of grapes

Bronze statuette of a child with a bunch of grapes

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

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
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. 298 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. 3865632 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-09 02:44 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.