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 of a Female Figure from the Tomb of Khety” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:30 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.
Head of a Female Figure from the Tomb of Khety

Head of a Female Figure from the Tomb of Khety

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fame Adoring Shakespeare's Tomb

Fame Adoring Shakespeare's Tomb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaikuntha Vishnu

Vaikuntha Vishnu

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

Public domainThe Met
Mourning sampler

Mourning sampler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragments from a Large Figure of Mentuhotep II

Relief Fragments from a Large Figure of Mentuhotep II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Fantasy with Tomb and Ruins, Plate from "Rovine Inventione de Giovan. Loren, Legeay Architet. Intagliate da lui stesso in Luce 1768", by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

Architectural Fantasy with Tomb and Ruins, Plate from "Rovine Inventione de Giovan. Loren, Legeay Architet. Intagliate da lui stesso in Luce 1768"

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

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

Head

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

Public domainThe Met
Proof for textile: The tomb of J.J.Rousseau, by Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815

Proof for textile: The tomb of J.J.Rousseau

Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815 · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of a Bodhisattva

Bust of a Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Projet d'un Tombeau fait pour Mr. le President de la * * * * * à Dijon en 1733 (Design for a Tomb for President * * * * * in Dijon in 1733), plate 99, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Projet d'un Tombeau fait pour Mr. le President de la * * * * * à Dijon en 1733 (Design for a Tomb for President * * * * * in Dijon in 1733), plate 99, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

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
Le Tombeau de Voltaire, by Dubern & Cie.

Le Tombeau de Voltaire

Dubern & Cie. · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

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
Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty

Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty

Artist not stated in the record · 656–650 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
Marble female figure

Marble female figure

Artist not stated in the record · 4500–4000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Tomb, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Elevation of a Tomb

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

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
Tomb Designs, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Tomb Designs

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lupona (royal seat), by Ngongo ya Chintu, formerly known as the "Buli Master"

Lupona (royal seat)

Ngongo ya Chintu, formerly known as the "Buli Master" · ca. 1840–1870

Public domainThe Met
Mourning Over the Dead Christ, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Mourning Over the Dead Christ

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850

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

Marble female figure

Bastis Master · 2600–2400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stagecoach, Pompeii, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Stagecoach, Pompeii, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

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. 21097 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 4389374 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-27 03:30 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.