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 youth carrying a pig” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:01 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 youth carrying a pig

Bronze statuette of a youth carrying a pig

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th 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 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
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze youth

Bronze youth

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised.", by Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735

Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised."

Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735 · 1726

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a Black African youth

Bronze statuette of a Black African youth

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

Public domainThe Met
Toit a Porcs

Toit a Porcs

Artist not stated in the record · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man Carrying a Child on His Shoulder, by Barthélemy Prieur

Man Carrying a Child on His Shoulder

Barthélemy Prieur · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Worrying Mother Pig Toy, by Unidentified

Worrying Mother Pig Toy

Unidentified · 20th century (pre-1960s)

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
Costume Design: Youth and Diana for a Ballet

Costume Design: Youth and Diana for a Ballet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze youth

Bronze youth

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Crucifixion with the Four Evangelists [left]; Saint Bridget [right, above]; Hospital Scene [right, below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Crucifixion with the Four Evangelists [left]; Saint Bridget [right, above]; Hospital Scene [right, below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze youth

Bronze youth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 470 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Animal statuette

Animal statuette

Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a youth

Statuette of a youth

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

Public domainThe Met
Animal statuette

Animal statuette

Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a youth

Bronze statuette of a youth

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

Public domainThe Met
Lion statuette

Lion statuette

Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a youth with phiale

Bronze statuette of a youth with phiale

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Ornament: animal statuette

Ornament: animal statuette

Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a nude youth

Bronze statuette of a nude youth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–525 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
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. 134 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. 3857101 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-03 13:01 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.