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 “Limestone head of a bearded man” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 09:59 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.
Limestone head of a bearded man

Limestone head of a bearded man

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

Public domainThe Met
The Head of a Bearded Man, a Man on Horseback, by Paolo Emilio Besenzi, Italian, 1624 - 1666

The Head of a Bearded Man, a Man on Horseback

Paolo Emilio Besenzi, Italian, 1624 - 1666 · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of a bearded man

Limestone head of a bearded man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century 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
Limestone head of a bearded man from a funerary stele

Limestone head of a bearded man from a funerary stele

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Bearded Man, by William Merritt Chase, American, 1849–1916

Head of a Bearded Man

William Merritt Chase, American, 1849–1916 · 1872–78

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
Study of a Bearded Man, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Study of a Bearded Man

Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of a bearded man wearing a wreath

Limestone head of a bearded man wearing a wreath

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cartouche with Cupid, a Horse and Spears from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez", by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Design for Cartouche with Cupid, a Horse and Spears from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone bearded head with a wreath of leaves

Limestone bearded head with a wreath of leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Man

Head of a Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Bearded Man

Head of a Bearded Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1160–70

Public domainThe Met
Eight Heads, Men and Women

Eight Heads, Men and Women

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

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

Head of King David

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Public domainThe Met
Misericord (2)

Misericord (2)

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a bearded man wearing a pointed cap, perhaps a so-called Persian rider

Head of a bearded man wearing a pointed cap, perhaps a so-called Persian rider

Artist not stated in the record · 525–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of a Man's Head and Floating Iceberg, Canada, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketches of a Man's Head and Floating Iceberg, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June-July 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone Head of Joseph

Limestone Head of Joseph

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1230

Public domainThe Met
Study of Man's Head for "A Lesson in Charity", by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of Man's Head for "A Lesson in Charity"

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone male head

Limestone male head

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Studies of Heads, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Studies of Heads

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1760–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Tutankhamun

Head of Tutankhamun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Sleeping Man, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Portrait of Sleeping Man

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1876–90

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. 3533 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. 3885739 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 2026-08-27 09:59 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.