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 an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:11 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 an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

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

Public domainThe Met
Mixed Sketches with a Lion Statue, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mixed Sketches with a Lion Statue, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1883–1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

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

Public domainThe Met
Study of man, woman and child heads, sitting child, by Giovanni Battista Naldini, Italian, 1537 - 1591

Study of man, woman and child heads, sitting child

Giovanni Battista Naldini, Italian, 1537 - 1591 · ca. 1570

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut Originally in the Temple Sanctuary SE Corner

Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut Originally in the Temple Sanctuary SE Corner

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

Public domainThe Met
Head of an Elderly Bearded Man

Head of an Elderly Bearded Man

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head from an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

Head from an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

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

Public domainThe Met
Head of an Elderly Bearded Man

Head of an Elderly Bearded Man

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–20

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
Porte pour le Sallon à l'Italienne Cotté CIX, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Porte pour le Sallon à l'Italienne Cotté CIX

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sphinx of Hatshepsut

Sphinx of Hatshepsut

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

Public domainThe Met
Head of an Old Man

Head of an Old Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1788

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
Sheet of Studies: Self-portrait, a Beggar Couple, Heads of an Old Man and Old Woman, etc.

Sheet of Studies: Self-portrait, a Beggar Couple, Heads of an Old Man and Old Woman, etc.

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1632

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
Portrait of Bishop William of Wainelete

Portrait of Bishop William of Wainelete

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660-1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II in the Jubilee Garment

Statue of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II in the Jubilee Garment

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

Public domainThe Met
The Head of an Old Monk and the Head of a Child, by Donato Creti, Italian, 1671–1749

The Head of an Old Monk and the Head of a Child

Donato Creti, Italian, 1671–1749 · ca. 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of King David

Head of King David

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Public domainThe Met
Decoration of a Frieze, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Decoration of a Frieze

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 18th-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Estate Figure

Estate Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Studies of Two Eagle Heads and One Wing, from Cardinal Bernis' Eagle

Studies of Two Eagle Heads and One Wing, from Cardinal Bernis' Eagle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut

The Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut

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

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for the Representation of an Eagle Over a Thunderbolt

Sketches for the Representation of an Eagle Over a Thunderbolt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

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. 619 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. 3008612 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-28 06:11 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.