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. 18 shown for “Bronze statuette of an artisan with silver eyes” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:07 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 an artisan with silver eyes

Bronze statuette of an artisan with silver eyes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-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
Longcase clock, by Hermann Achenbach

Longcase clock

Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Alter Lamp

Project for an Alter Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

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 worn by Nona Hendryx of Labelle, by Larry LeGaspi, American, 1950 - 2001

Costume worn by Nona Hendryx of Labelle

Larry LeGaspi, American, 1950 - 2001 · 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated satyr with silvered eyes, by Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Seated satyr with silvered eyes

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · second quarter of the 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Singer model 66 treadle sewing machine and motor from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Singer model 66 treadle sewing machine and motor from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze grotesque

Bronze grotesque

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

Public domainThe Met
Makeup case used by makeup artist Bernadine M. Anderson, by Unidentified

Makeup case used by makeup artist Bernadine M. Anderson

Unidentified · 1970s - 1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a dwarf with silver eyes

Bronze statuette of a dwarf with silver eyes

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

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
Bronze man and centaur

Bronze man and centaur

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Celestial globe with clockwork, by Gerhard Emmoser

Celestial globe with clockwork

Gerhard Emmoser · 1579

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future

Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Paris, by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Paris

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Public domainThe Met
Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, by Lorenzo Vaccaro

Virgin of the Immaculate Conception

Lorenzo Vaccaro · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
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
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. 188 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. 2909552 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 16:07 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.