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 “Fragment of a Female Figure” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:57 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.
Fragment of a Female Figure

Fragment of a Female Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a terracotta female figure

Fragment of a terracotta female figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure

Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 2200–2000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a Head, by J. Alden Weir, born West Point, NY 1852-died New York City 1919

Fragment of a Head

J. Alden Weir, born West Point, NY 1852-died New York City 1919 · ca. 1887-1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble female figure

Marble female figure

Artist not stated in the record · 4500–4000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Apotheosis of Franklin

Apotheosis of Franklin

Artist not stated in the record · 1780s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a female

Statuette of a female

Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 1st millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Apotheosis of Franklin

Apotheosis of Franklin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shrine of the Virgin

Shrine of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

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
Fragment, by Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818

Fragment

Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818 · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smiling figure (Sonriente), by South central Veracruz artist(s)

Smiling figure (Sonriente)

South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Apotheosis of Franklin

Apotheosis of Franklin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Female Figure

Fragment of a Female Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Piety, by Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch, 1566 – 1651

Piety

Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch, 1566 – 1651 · 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaikuntha Vishnu

Vaikuntha Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Classical Sculpture of the Venus Pudica Type, by Benozzo Gozzoli, Italian, ca. 1421-1497

Sketch of Classical Sculpture of the Venus Pudica Type

Benozzo Gozzoli, Italian, ca. 1421-1497 · ca. 1475

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

Marble female figure

Bastis Master · 2600–2400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Female Figure

Fragment of a Female Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
The Statue Before the Ruins, by Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808

The Statue Before the Ruins

Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

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. 18210 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. 4230508 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 22:57 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.