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 marble grave stele of a woman” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:20 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.
Fragment of a marble grave stele of a woman

Fragment of a marble grave stele of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four-sided miniature stele

Four-sided miniature stele

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, from "IXe Cahier de Fragment"

Title Page, from "IXe Cahier de Fragment"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Baby's Left Hand (unfinished), by Studio of Hiram Powers, founded Florence, Italy 1837-closed 1873

Baby's Left Hand (unfinished)

Studio of Hiram Powers, founded Florence, Italy 1837-closed 1873 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

Public domainThe Met
PLUSIEURS PORTAILS ET PORTES Composés et Gravés par L.G Taraval, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

PLUSIEURS PORTAILS ET PORTES Composés et Gravés par L.G Taraval

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele with a family group

Marble grave stele with a family group

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 360 BCE

Public domainThe Met
NOUVEAU LIVRE de Principes d’Ornements Particulierement pour trouver un nombre infini de forms qui en dependent. d’Après les Desseins de C. Gillot Peintre du Roy. Gravé par Huquier, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

NOUVEAU LIVRE de Principes d’Ornements Particulierement pour trouver un nombre infini de forms qui en dependent. d’Après les Desseins de C. Gillot Peintre du Roy. Gravé par Huquier

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele (grave marker) of a woman

Marble stele (grave marker) of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mold of a Child's Hand, by Studio of Hiram Powers, founded Florence, Italy 1837-closed 1873

Mold of a Child's Hand

Studio of Hiram Powers, founded Florence, Italy 1837-closed 1873 · 1840-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele of a little girl

Marble grave stele of a little girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Torso

Torso

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele of Antigenes

Marble grave stele of Antigenes

Artist not stated in the record · end of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Louisa Powers' Hand, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Louisa Powers' Hand

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewish Woman of Algiers, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Jewish Woman of Algiers

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Les Soirées de Rome Déssinées et Gravées Par Robert, Peintre de L’Académie, 1er Cahier, by Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808

Les Soirées de Rome Déssinées et Gravées Par Robert, Peintre de L’Académie, 1er Cahier

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele (grave marker) of a young girl

Marble stele (grave marker) of a young girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 440–425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Child's Hand, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Child's Hand

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Bathroom and Boudoir Interior, by Jean-Claude Rumeau, French, active 1806 - 1823

Bathroom and Boudoir Interior

Jean-Claude Rumeau, French, active 1806 - 1823 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
DESSUS DE CLAVECIN GRAVÉ D'APRES LE DESSEIN ORIGINAL INVENTÉ PAR WATEAU, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

DESSUS DE CLAVECIN GRAVÉ D'APRES LE DESSEIN ORIGINAL INVENTÉ PAR WATEAU

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

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. 2165 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3866321 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 18:20 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.