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 sculptured statue base depicting an Asiatic prisoner” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 14:32 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 sculptured statue base depicting an Asiatic prisoner

Fragment of a sculptured statue base depicting an Asiatic prisoner

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Interior Wall Elevation, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Interior Wall Elevation

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1656–57

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prisoner

Prisoner

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Prison Doorway Erected by Pope Pius VI, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Two Designs for Prison Doorway Erected by Pope Pius VI

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cast of an Unidentified Right Hand Grasping a Rod

Cast of an Unidentified Right Hand Grasping a Rod

Artist not stated in the record · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813), by Jean-Baptiste Stouf

The Composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813)

Jean-Baptiste Stouf · 1804–8

Public domainThe Met
Cast of an Unidentified Child's Left Hand Grasping a Rod, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Cast of an Unidentified Child's Left Hand Grasping a Rod

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orpheus, by Cristoforo Stati (Cristofano da Bracciano)

Orpheus

Cristoforo Stati (Cristofano da Bracciano) · 1600–1601

Public domainThe Met
Cast of an Unidentified Right Hand in a Relaxed Position, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Cast of an Unidentified Right Hand in a Relaxed Position

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Seated Imhotep

Statue of Seated Imhotep

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 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
Trotting horse, by Giambologna

Trotting horse

Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Public domainThe Met
Cast of an Unidentified Baby's Left Hand Pressing Down, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Cast of an Unidentified Baby's Left Hand Pressing Down

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Statue of the Steward Sehetepibreankh

Seated Statue of the Steward Sehetepibreankh

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1885 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haremhab as a Scribe of the King

Haremhab as a Scribe of the King

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1314 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cast of an Unidentified Left Hand Pressing Down, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Cast of an Unidentified Left Hand Pressing Down

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
The Wounded Scout. A Friend In The Swamp., by John Rogers, American, 1829 - 1904

The Wounded Scout. A Friend In The Swamp.

John Rogers, American, 1829 - 1904 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude

Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winter, by Jean Antoine Houdon

Winter

Jean Antoine Houdon · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Cast of an Unidentified Right Hand on a Plaster Base, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Cast of an Unidentified Right Hand on a Plaster Base

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · n.d.

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. 336 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. 3960043 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 14:32 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.