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 statue fragment of a left hand holding a kid” — 64 records examined, 6 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 statue fragment of a left hand holding a kid

Limestone statue fragment of a left hand holding a kid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue fragment of a left hand holding a bunch of daisies

Limestone statue fragment of a left hand holding a bunch of daisies

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue fragment of a hand holding a pyxis or bobbin

Limestone statue fragment of a hand holding a pyxis or bobbin

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Piety, by Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch, 1566 – 1651

Piety

Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch, 1566 – 1651 · 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon

Statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler fragments

Sampler fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue fragment of a right hand with a bracelet, holding a flower

Limestone statue fragment of a right hand with a bracelet, holding a flower

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kneeling Statue of Yuny

Kneeling Statue of Yuny

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

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

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue of a male votary holding a bird in the left hand

Limestone statue of a male votary holding a bird in the left hand

Artist not stated in the record · ca 500–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826), by Camillo Gajani, Italian

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)

Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue fragment of a left hand resting on a dove

Limestone statue fragment of a left hand resting on a dove

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study: The left hand of a woman holding a sheet of paper

Study: The left hand of a woman holding a sheet of paper

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stelophorous Statue of Bay

Stelophorous Statue of Bay

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study: the left hand of a young man holding a stick and resting on a book

Study: the left hand of a young man holding a stick and resting on a book

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Tutankhamun

Head of Tutankhamun

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

Public domainThe Met
Nymphs and Satyrs Before a Herm

Nymphs and Satyrs Before a Herm

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue of a youth holding a pyxis

Limestone statue of a youth holding a pyxis

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

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

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone figure holding a mask

Limestone figure holding a mask

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 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. 1263 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3953199 matched · 40 examined · 5 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.