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. 14 shown for “Limestone statuette of Herakles as an archer” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 05:05 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 statuette of Herakles as an archer

Limestone statuette of Herakles as an archer

Artist not stated in the record · middle or 3rd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Camera, Aerial, Hare, Patent Field, by G. Hare Ltd.

Camera, Aerial, Hare, Patent Field

G. Hare Ltd.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of Herakles as an archer

Limestone statuette of Herakles as an archer

Artist not stated in the record · middle or 3rd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Artist not stated in the record · 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of Herakles as an archer

Limestone statuette of Herakles as an archer

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Limestone sarcophagus

Limestone sarcophagus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 475–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Shield Bearer with the Ducal Arms of Saxony, by Hans Daucher

Shield Bearer with the Ducal Arms of Saxony

Hans Daucher · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Archers

Archers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2551–2494 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stelophorous Statue of Bay

Stelophorous Statue of Bay

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

Public domainThe Met
Bronze Herakles

Bronze Herakles

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

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statuette of drunken Herakles

Bronze statuette of drunken Herakles

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Limestone statuette of a childbirth scene

Limestone statuette of a childbirth scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 310–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Limestone Keystone from a Vaulted Ceiling

Limestone Keystone from a Vaulted Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–30

Public domainThe Met
Keystone from a Vaulted Ceiling

Keystone from a Vaulted Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–30

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. 33 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. 2894926 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 05:05 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.