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 partly unfinished limestone statuette of a silen” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:16 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 partly unfinished limestone statuette of a silen

Fragment of a partly unfinished limestone statuette of a silen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Desigsn for Embroidered or Woven Floral Motifs of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Finished and Unfinished, by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Desigsn for Embroidered or Woven Floral Motifs of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Finished and Unfinished

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Unfinished Statuette

Unfinished Statuette

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1980–1975 B. C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of Taweret

Statuette of Taweret

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1504 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven Fabric, Unfinished Fragment

Design for a Woven Fabric, Unfinished Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone fragment of a lyre or throne

Limestone fragment of a lyre or throne

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Silene regia Sims

Silene regia Sims

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor

Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2010–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Silene virginica L.

Silene virginica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Apr 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Unfinished Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat of Pattern No. 863 of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Unfinished Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat of Pattern No. 863 of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an unfinished cartoon for cotton printing: Hunting and Fishing [La Chasse et La Pêche], by Jean-Jacques Karpff, French, 1770 - 1829

Fragment of an unfinished cartoon for cotton printing: Hunting and Fishing [La Chasse et La Pêche]

Jean-Jacques Karpff, French, 1770 - 1829 · 1810 or 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a lion

Limestone statuette of a lion

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment and ornaments

Fragment and ornaments

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baptism of Christ, by Alessandro Algardi

Baptism of Christ

Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Silene latifolia Poir.

Silene latifolia Poir.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a childbirth scene

Limestone statuette of a childbirth scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 310–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Akhenaten in the blue crown, sign traces at nape of neck

Head of Akhenaten in the blue crown, sign traces at nape of neck

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Triton Fountain after Giambologna, by Unknown

Design for a Triton Fountain after Giambologna

Unknown · 1650–75

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. 377 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3874615 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-05 10:16 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.