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 beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:33 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 beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Artist not stated in the record · end of 6th or early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 15-17, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cavagnole

Cavagnole

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd quarter of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Armchair

Armchair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Candlesticks, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Pair of Candlesticks

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Soffit and Vase Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Soffit and Vase Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Soffit and Vase Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Soffit and Vase Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Limestone statue of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hommage Champètre, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Hommage Champètre

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of beardless male votary

Limestone head of beardless male votary

Artist not stated in the record · mid–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling and Profile Head; Verso: Moses with the Tablets of the Law

Design for Ceiling and Profile Head; Verso: Moses with the Tablets of the Law

Artist not stated in the record · 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
Tea Urn in the Shape of Atlas Supporting the World, by Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801

Tea Urn in the Shape of Atlas Supporting the World

Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of beardless male votary in Greek dress

Limestone statuette of beardless male votary in Greek dress

Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Panel Design, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Ornamental Panel Design

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · ca. 1651

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta male head wearing a wreath

Terracotta male head wearing a wreath

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE (?)

Public domainThe Met
Bedspread

Bedspread

Artist not stated in the record · 1851–1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of a wreathed youth

Limestone head of a wreathed youth

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sofa

Sofa

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 118 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. 4350657 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 07:33 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.