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 “Jasper statuette of a man wearing a toga” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 22:46 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.
Jasper statuette of a man wearing a toga

Jasper statuette of a man wearing a toga

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Draft of Letter, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Draft of Letter

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1877–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a man

Bronze statuette of a man

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulcher Monument for a Couple

Design for a Sepulcher Monument for a Couple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abduction of a Sabine Woman, by Giambologna

Abduction of a Sabine Woman

Giambologna · model ca. 1579; cast possibly late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Albarello

Albarello

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze shepherd

Bronze shepherd

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Fugitive's Story, by John Rogers, American, 1829 - 1904

The Fugitive's Story

John Rogers, American, 1829 - 1904 · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of Wah

Statuette of Wah

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

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of a caravan of dromedary camels pulling a wagon of men

Photographic postcard of a caravan of dromedary camels pulling a wagon of men

Artist not stated in the record · 1902-1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a man

Bronze statuette of a man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Vase After the Antique, by Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835

Vase After the Antique

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of two men wearing suits, by Unidentified

Tintype of two men wearing suits

Unidentified · 1855-1860s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a snake-headed deity

Statuette of a snake-headed deity

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Lucille Brown and Elder Brown among others, by Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s

Photograph of Lucille Brown and Elder Brown among others

Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · 1915-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Merry Company on a Terrace, by Jan Steen

Merry Company on a Terrace

Jan Steen · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796

Button

Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man Holding a Shrine Containing an Image of Osiris

Man Holding a Shrine Containing an Image of Osiris

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

Public domainThe Met
Tintype portrait of a man wearing a fur hat

Tintype portrait of a man wearing a fur hat

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin

Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of two men and three women.

Photograph of two men and three women.

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century - early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a Scribe

Statuette of a Scribe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796

Button

Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 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. 57 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 3863466 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-10 22:46 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.