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 “Female Figure (tunjo)” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 15:36 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.
Female Figure (tunjo)

Female Figure (tunjo)

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Lepidium bipinnatifidum Desv.

Lepidium bipinnatifidum Desv.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jan 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female Figure (tunjo)

Female Figure (tunjo)

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–16th century

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 (tunjo)

Female Figure (tunjo)

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–16th 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
Figure

Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 2200–2000 BCE

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
Marble female figure

Marble female figure

Artist not stated in the record · 4500–4000 BCE

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
Standing Female Deity, probably Durga

Standing Female Deity, probably Durga

Artist not stated in the record · ca. last quarter of the 7th century–early 8th century

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
Serpent (tunjo)

Serpent (tunjo)

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–16th 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–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serpent (tunjo)

Serpent (tunjo)

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
(Figurine Series) Semi-Nude Female Figure, by Salvator Rosa, Italian, born Naples, Italy 1615-died Rome, Italy 1673

(Figurine Series) Semi-Nude Female Figure

Salvator Rosa, Italian, born Naples, Italy 1615-died Rome, Italy 1673

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Male Figure (tunjo)

Male Figure (tunjo)

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Figural Scene with Artist Drawing Female Figure While Man Watches from Behind, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Figural Scene with Artist Drawing Female Figure While Man Watches from Behind

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Male Figure (tunjo)

Male Figure (tunjo)

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Indians: 9 Male and Female Torsos; 9 Head, Profiles--no. 28, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Indians: 9 Male and Female Torsos; 9 Head, Profiles--no. 28

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female Figure

Female Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–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
'Otua fefine (deity figure), by Ha'apai Islands artist

'Otua fefine (deity figure)

Ha'apai Islands artist · Early 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
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. 3005 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 574262 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-09 15:36 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.