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 veiled female votary” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:39 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 veiled female votary

Limestone head of a veiled female votary

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of Veiled Nude Figure, by Louis Schaettle, American, 1867–1917

Study of Veiled Nude Figure

Louis Schaettle, American, 1867–1917 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of a veiled female votary

Limestone head of a veiled female votary

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Female Head, by Ernest Joseph Laurent, French, born Paris, France 1859-died Paris, France 1929

Female Head

Ernest Joseph Laurent, French, born Paris, France 1859-died Paris, France 1929 · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of a female votary

Limestone head of a female votary

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE(?)

Public domainThe Met
Bonnet veil

Bonnet veil

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

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
Figure and Camel Sketches from Gaza, Palestine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Figure and Camel Sketches from Gaza, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · March 4 and 5, 1868

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

Limestone head of a wreathed youth

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

Public domainThe Met
Grey fascinator with bow and veil, by Salinger's Hats Inc.

Grey fascinator with bow and veil

Salinger's Hats Inc. · 1930-mid 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female head

Female head

Artist not stated in the record · 380–250 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coin

Coin

Artist not stated in the record · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a male votary (worshipper)

Limestone statuette of a male votary (worshipper)

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

Public domainThe Met
Green cap with veil and feathers

Green cap with veil and feathers

Artist not stated in the record · 1950s

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
Five Headgears, as Worn by Berlin Women, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1782 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"

Five Headgears, as Worn by Berlin Women, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1782 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"

Artist not stated in the record · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a recumbent votary (worshipper)

Limestone statuette of a recumbent votary (worshipper)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Madonna, by J. Carroll Beckwith, American, 1852–1917

Madonna

J. Carroll Beckwith, American, 1852–1917 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Partial female head

Partial female head

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Penstemon sepalulus A. Nelson

Penstemon sepalulus A. Nelson

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1938

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

Limestone head of a wreathed youth

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Black breton hat with veil, by Jelleff's, American, 1910 - 1979

Black breton hat with veil

Jelleff's, American, 1910 - 1979 · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a male votary (worshipper)

Limestone statuette of a male votary (worshipper)

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

Public domainThe Met
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · early 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. 166 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 4238100 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 12:39 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.