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 princess from a group statue” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 04:48 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 princess from a group statue

Head of a princess from a group statue

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

Public domainThe Met
Hand-colored albumen portrait of Princess Dagmar

Hand-colored albumen portrait of Princess Dagmar

Artist not stated in the record · 1860-1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Kneeling Captive

Statue of Kneeling Captive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Projet du Sallon de la Princesse Sartorinski en Pologne (Project for the Salon of the Princess Czartoryski in Poland), plate 84, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Projet du Sallon de la Princesse Sartorinski en Pologne (Project for the Salon of the Princess Czartoryski in Poland), plate 84, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

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

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
Décoration de la salle de spectacle, construit dans le manège couvert de la grande écurie à Versailles, pour la représentation de la Princesse de Navarre Comédie Ballet, donnée à l’occasion du Mariage de Louis Dauphin de France avec Marie Thérèse Infante d’Espagne, le XXIII février M.DCCLV., by Sébastien-Antoine Slodtz, French, 1695–1754

Décoration de la salle de spectacle, construit dans le manège couvert de la grande écurie à Versailles, pour la représentation de la Princesse de Navarre Comédie Ballet, donnée à l’occasion du Mariage de Louis Dauphin de France avec Marie Thérèse Infante d’Espagne, le XXIII février M.DCCLV.

Sébastien-Antoine Slodtz, French, 1695–1754 · 1756

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
Figural Sketches, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Figural Sketches

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a wounded warrior

Marble statue of a wounded warrior

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 138–181 CE

Public domainThe Met
Courtesan, by Keisei Eisen, Japanese, 1790 – 1848

Courtesan

Keisei Eisen, Japanese, 1790 – 1848 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Face from a Composite Statue, probably Queen Tiye

Face from a Composite Statue, probably Queen Tiye

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1330 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
Nikare with his Wife and Daughter

Nikare with his Wife and Daughter

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2420–2389 BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Eijiri, from the series, "The Highest Ranking Geisha's Journey", by Keisei Eisen, Japanese, 1790 – 1848

Eijiri, from the series, "The Highest Ranking Geisha's Journey"

Keisei Eisen, Japanese, 1790 – 1848 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and the Erymanthian boar, by Giambologna

Hercules and the Erymanthian boar

Giambologna · Late 17th or 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Borders

Borders

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Public domainThe Met
Mariko, from the series, "The Highest Ranking Geisha's Journey", by Keisei Eisen, Japanese, 1790 – 1848

Mariko, from the series, "The Highest Ranking Geisha's Journey"

Keisei Eisen, Japanese, 1790 – 1848 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Sheet with Sketches, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Sheet with Sketches

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · 1762–1844

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
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, by Giambologna

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Public domainThe Met
LE CHEVAL FONDU / LA MAIN CHAUDE, by François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755

LE CHEVAL FONDU / LA MAIN CHAUDE

François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755 · mid- 18th century

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. 2683 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 4039199 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-29 04:48 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.