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. 16 shown for “Kneeling statue of Amenopetemhat holding the Hathor emblem” — 44 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:57 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.
Kneeling statue of Amenopetemhat holding the Hathor emblem

Kneeling statue of Amenopetemhat holding the Hathor emblem

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Kneeling winged figure holding a crown, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Kneeling winged figure holding a crown

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Senenmut Holding a Sistrum

Statue of Senenmut Holding a Sistrum

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

Public domainThe Met
Three Men, One Kneeling and Two Bowing, by Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Three Men, One Kneeling and Two Bowing

Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Healing statue of Isis

Healing statue of Isis

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Judith with the Head of Holofernes, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1587 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab of Hatnefer

Scarab of Hatnefer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1780-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for a Painting of Saint Anthony of Padua Holding the Infant Saint James Major or Saint Luis Gonzaga, by Giacomo Zampa, Italian, 1731 - 1808

Study for a Painting of Saint Anthony of Padua Holding the Infant Saint James Major or Saint Luis Gonzaga

Giacomo Zampa, Italian, 1731 - 1808 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Painting: The Entombment of Christ

Design for a Painting: The Entombment of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · 1700-1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Goddard Memorial Window, in St. John's Church, Providence, Rhode Island, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Study for the Goddard Memorial Window, in St. John's Church, Providence, Rhode Island

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketch of Charity, Faith, and Hope, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of Charity, Faith, and Hope

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · 1880–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
God the Father and Angels

God the Father and Angels

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Christ Child upon an Altar between Two Saints, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Christ Child upon an Altar between Two Saints

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thetis observing Vulcan fabricating the arms of Achilles, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Thetis observing Vulcan fabricating the arms of Achilles

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies for a Kneeling Monk, by Giuseppe Passeri, Italian, 1654 - 1714

Studies for a Kneeling Monk

Giuseppe Passeri, Italian, 1654 - 1714 · 1775–1800

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3093276 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 09:57 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.