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 “Head from a figure, Xochipilli-Macuilxochitl” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:16 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Head from a figure, Xochipilli-Macuilxochitl

Head from a figure, Xochipilli-Macuilxochitl

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Geese Sketches with Figures, East Hampton, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Geese Sketches with Figures, East Hampton, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably July 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head, by Temne or Bullom artist(s)

Head

Temne or Bullom artist(s) · 12th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Facial Expressions, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Facial Expressions

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird Head

Bird Head

Artist not stated in the record · Date unknown

Public domainThe Met
Figural Sketches, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Figural Sketches

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1775

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
Grotesque for an Oblong Panel, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Grotesque for an Oblong Panel

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1730–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
'Otua fefine (deity figure), by Ha'apai Islands artist

'Otua fefine (deity figure)

Ha'apai Islands artist · Early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Anatomical Sketches of the Head, Neck, and Shoulders, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of the Head, Neck, and Shoulders

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably 1865–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand

Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of the Laocoon (from a cast), by Izabel M. Coles, American, 1890 - 1964

Head of the Laocoon (from a cast)

Izabel M. Coles, American, 1890 - 1964 · ca. 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ancestor Figure

Ancestor Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century or earlier

Public domainThe Met
Study of the Head and Arms of a Figure, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Study of the Head and Arms of a Figure

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · 1875–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Buddha Granting Boons

Enthroned Buddha Granting Boons

Artist not stated in the record · dated by inscription to ca. 600

Public domainThe Met
Anatomical Sketches of Heads, Faces, and Eyes, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of Heads, Faces, and Eyes

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably 1865–1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay Depicting a Falcon with Spread Wings

Inlay Depicting a Falcon with Spread Wings

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument to a Hero, by Unknown, Italian

Sepulchral Monument to a Hero

Unknown, Italian · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Rainbow over the Mediterranean with Figure Sketches, Beirut, Lebanon, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Rainbow over the Mediterranean with Figure Sketches, Beirut, Lebanon

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · January 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Anatomical Sketches of Heads, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of Heads

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably 1865–1875

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. 17977 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 1182 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-01 22:16 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.