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 “Crouching Tiger Figure” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 12:57 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.
Crouching Tiger Figure

Crouching Tiger Figure

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Crouching tiger

Crouching tiger

Artist not stated in the record · 220-266

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiger, by Mary Atwood

Tiger

Mary Atwood · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for “The Prudent Tiger” in “Comic Fables, Out of The World Series”, by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

Sketches for “The Prudent Tiger” in “Comic Fables, Out of The World Series”

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · ca. 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crouching frog

Crouching frog

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Possibly weight with a crouching tiger

Possibly weight with a crouching tiger

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiger

Tiger

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Crouching Female Nude, by James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903

Crouching Female Nude

James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of twelve zodiac animals

Set of twelve zodiac animals

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Fountain; elevation of a church, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Fountain; elevation of a church

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1792–1795

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

Crouching Venus

Giambologna · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figure of "Africa", by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Allegorical Figure of "Africa"

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1760

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

Crouching Venus

Giambologna · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figure of "Africa", by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Allegorical Figure of "Africa"

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with crouching figure holding a key

Panel with crouching figure holding a key

Artist not stated in the record · 100–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Throne, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Throne

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corbel with Crouching Male Figure

Corbel with Crouching Male Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Lady and the Tiger, by Frederick Stuart Church, Grand Rapids, MI 1842-New York City 1924

Lady and the Tiger

Frederick Stuart Church, Grand Rapids, MI 1842-New York City 1924 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of Aphrodite crouching and arranging her hair

Marble statue of Aphrodite crouching and arranging her hair

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

Public domainThe Met
Figural Study of a Man, by Domenico Gargiulo, called Micco Spadaro, Italian, 1609 - 1675

Figural Study of a Man

Domenico Gargiulo, called Micco Spadaro, Italian, 1609 - 1675 · 1630–1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure

Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
A crouching, snarling tiger, by Gantoku Aoki (1804-1859)

A crouching, snarling tiger

Gantoku Aoki (1804-1859) · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nude crouching figure wearing a wreath, large phallus broken away

Nude crouching figure wearing a wreath, large phallus broken away

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Three Men, by Domenico Gargiulo, called Micco Spadaro, Italian, 1609 - 1675

Three Men

Domenico Gargiulo, called Micco Spadaro, Italian, 1609 - 1675 · 1630–1640

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. 297 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 38278 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 12:57 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.