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. 20 shown for “Limestone statue of a male votary” — 64 records examined, 32 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 of a male votary

Limestone statue of a male votary

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

Public domainThe Met
Cambarus striatus

Cambarus striatus

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a limestone statue of a male votary (worshipper)

Fragment of a limestone statue of a male votary (worshipper)

Artist not stated in the record · probably 1st half of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cambarus striatus

Cambarus striatus

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue of a male votary holding a dove and an apple

Limestone statue of a male votary holding a dove and an apple

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

Public domainThe Met
Cambarus (Depressicambarus) striatus

Cambarus (Depressicambarus) striatus

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue of a male votary wearing a wreath and long tunic

Limestone statue of a male votary wearing a wreath and long tunic

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 425–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bracelet

Bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

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
Psora texana W.A. Weber

Psora texana W.A. Weber

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Apr 1974

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
Detail of Ground Floor Fenestration of the House of Hector Guimard, 22 Rue Mozart, by Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

Detail of Ground Floor Fenestration of the House of Hector Guimard, 22 Rue Mozart

Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942 · ca. 1910

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

Limestone statue of a male votary

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

Public domainThe Met
Cambarus striatus

Cambarus striatus

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue of Aphrodite holding winged Eros

Limestone statue of Aphrodite holding winged Eros

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

Public domainThe Met
Exterior View of the House of Hector Guimard, by Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

Exterior View of the House of Hector Guimard

Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942 · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Column Statue of a King

Column Statue of a King

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
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
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
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
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. 1103 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. 4388905 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 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.