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. 12 shown for “Deity Head” — 40 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Sadashiva worshipped by Parvati, by Attributed to Devidasa (Indian, active 1690-1695)

Sadashiva worshipped by Parvati

Attributed to Devidasa (Indian, active 1690-1695) · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Vase

Design for a Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant in Shape of Two Heads (Bacchus and Hermes) Back to Back, by Unidentified

Pendant in Shape of Two Heads (Bacchus and Hermes) Back to Back

Unidentified · 100-200

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eleven-headed Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Jūichimen Kannon)

Eleven-headed Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Jūichimen Kannon)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dionysius, by Unidentified (European)

Dionysius

Unidentified (European) · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lit à la Reine, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Lit à la Reine

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645-1655

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diana (fragment), by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Diana (fragment)

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled ca. 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diana (fragment), by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Diana (fragment)

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled ca. 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
(Studies--Villa Borghese, 2 figures, etc.), by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

(Studies--Villa Borghese, 2 figures, etc.)

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of Guanyin of Eleven Heads

Fragment of Guanyin of Eleven Heads

Artist not stated in the record · 703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inari Shrine at Oji (Oji Inari no yashiro) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Inari Shrine at Oji (Oji Inari no yashiro) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 65700 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 2026-08-27 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.