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. 23 shown for “Bronze statuette of a woman, perhaps a Hesperid” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 06:33 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 woman, perhaps a Hesperid

Bronze statuette of a woman, perhaps a Hesperid

Artist not stated in the record · 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
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

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
Terracotta statuette of a woman

Terracotta statuette of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fountain and Grotto, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Fountain and Grotto

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1800–1830

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
Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Artist not stated in the record · 1967

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

Trotting horse

Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Public domainThe Met
Liatris chapmanii Torr. & A. Gray

Liatris chapmanii Torr. & A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 1991

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
Animal statuette

Animal statuette

Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer

Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer

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

Public domainThe Met
Animal statuette

Animal statuette

Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

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
Lion statuette

Lion statuette

Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Getting out of the Bath, by Edgar Degas

Woman Getting out of the Bath

Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1890 or later, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Ornament: animal statuette

Ornament: animal statuette

Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abduction of a Sabine Woman, by Giambologna

Abduction of a Sabine Woman

Giambologna · model ca. 1579; cast possibly late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sailboat and Crashing Wave, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sailboat and Crashing Wave

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crouching Venus, by Giambologna

Crouching Venus

Giambologna · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Square

Square

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Stretching, by Edgar Degas

Woman Stretching

Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1884–89, cast 1920

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. 268 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. 3856809 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 06:33 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.