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 “Capelet for a statuette” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 13:26 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.
Capelet for a statuette

Capelet for a statuette

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Capelet

Capelet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

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

Statuette of a female

Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 1st millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mauve floral dress and belt with black capelet, by Unidentified

Mauve floral dress and belt with black capelet

Unidentified · 1950s

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
Yellow asymmetrical wrap around coat dress, by Unidentified

Yellow asymmetrical wrap around coat dress

Unidentified · 1960s - 1990s

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

Trotting horse

Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Public domainThe Met
Capelet

Capelet

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and the Erymanthian boar, by Giambologna

Hercules and the Erymanthian boar

Giambologna · Late 17th or 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Capelet

Capelet

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

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

Bronze statuette of a horse

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

Public domainThe Met
Capelet

Capelet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of Taweret

Statuette of Taweret

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1504 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gray beaded capelet with fur collar and trim, by Unidentified

Gray beaded capelet with fur collar and trim

Unidentified · 1950s - 1960s

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
Capelet

Capelet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

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
Capelet

Capelet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

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
Purple leather belt worn by Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic, by Tony Lama Boots, American, founded 1911

Purple leather belt worn by Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic

Tony Lama Boots, American, founded 1911 · mid 1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a rider wearing an elephant skin

Bronze statuette of a rider wearing an elephant skin

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd 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
Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her Arms

Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her Arms

Artist not stated in the record · 610–595 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozely, by Carter, American

Cabinet card of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozely

Carter, American · November 1884

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. 1012 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. 2070779 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-29 13:26 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.