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. 23 shown for “Female Figure” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:51 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Marble female figure

Marble female figure

Artist not stated in the record · 4500–4000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Woodcarving of a slave trader with enslaved female figure, by Unidentified

Woodcarving of a slave trader with enslaved female figure

Unidentified · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female Figure

Female Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–19th century

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

Allegorical Figure of "Asia"

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kneeling female figure, by Mexica artist(s)

Kneeling female figure

Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

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

Allegorical Figure of "Europe"

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
'Otua fefine (deity figure), by Ha'apai Islands artist

'Otua fefine (deity figure)

Ha'apai Islands artist · Early 19th century

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

Allegorical Figure of "America"

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble female figure, by Bastis Master

Marble female figure

Bastis Master · 2600–2400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figures of the "Four Continents", by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Allegorical Figures of the "Four Continents"

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female figure from an obu (house of images), by Igbo artist

Female figure from an obu (house of images)

Igbo artist · Late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Candelabrum, by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843

Candelabrum

Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843 · 1815–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corbel with Female Figure with Clasped Hands

Corbel with Female Figure with Clasped Hands

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Candelabrum, by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843

Candelabrum

Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843 · 1815–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female Figure

Female Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Female Figure

Female Figure

Artist not stated in the record · late 3rd millennium BCE

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–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Female Figure from the Tomb of Khety

Head of a Female Figure from the Tomb of Khety

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
The Four Continents: America, Asia, Africa, Europe, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Four Continents: America, Asia, Africa, Europe

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female figure

Female figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for Magazine Cover, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Design for Magazine Cover

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female figure

Female figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Study of a female figure, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Study of a female figure

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900

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. 2997 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 574139 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-26 20:51 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.