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. 14 shown for “Finial with the Earth Goddess, Nan Brah Dharani, and Standing Vishnu” — 42 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:20 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.
Finial with the Earth Goddess, Nan Brah Dharani, and Standing Vishnu

Finial with the Earth Goddess, Nan Brah Dharani, and Standing Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. first half of the 13th century

Public domainThe Met
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
Demons on an Elephant with Nan Brah Dharani, the Earth Goddess, Wringing Water from Her Hair

Demons on an Elephant with Nan Brah Dharani, the Earth Goddess, Wringing Water from Her Hair

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Egg cups and stand

Egg cups and stand

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Antique Goddesses, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Four Antique Goddesses

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · after 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salon rond de Six Portiques de treillage au Jardin du H[---] President Nicolaï, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Salon rond de Six Portiques de treillage au Jardin du H[---] President Nicolaï

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1658–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Durga Mahishasuramardini ("Slayer of the Buffalo Demon")

Durga Mahishasuramardini ("Slayer of the Buffalo Demon")

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sallon de treillage du petit bois de Sceaux, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Sallon de treillage du petit bois de Sceaux

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1658–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kettle and stand, by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904

Kettle and stand

Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Hindu Goddess

Seated Hindu Goddess

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Urn on a Stand, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for an Urn on a Stand

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Guanyin ("Goddess of Mercy")

Standing Guanyin ("Goddess of Mercy")

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup and cover

Cup and cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1698-1705

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1950436 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-04 01:20 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.