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. 21 shown for “Limestone statuette of Herakles brandishing a club” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 05:07 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 brandishing a club

Limestone statuette of Herakles brandishing a club

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of Herakles brandishing a club

Limestone statuette of Herakles brandishing a club

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

Public domainThe Met
Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins

Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1497

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone Herakles

Limestone Herakles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530–520 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Betrayal of Christ, from The Engraved Passion, by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

Betrayal of Christ, from The Engraved Passion

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1508

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of Herakles

Bronze statuette of Herakles

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

Public domainThe Met
Detail of the Call to Arms Statue on the Dewey Arch

Detail of the Call to Arms Statue on the Dewey Arch

Artist not stated in the record · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of Herakles

Bronze statuette of Herakles

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

Public domainThe Met
Stag, by Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875

Stag

Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875 · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of Herakles

Bronze statuette of Herakles

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

Public domainThe Met
Zeus Angered

Zeus Angered

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of Herakles

Bronze statuette of Herakles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–475 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Juno Seated on a Cloud, by Anton Raphael Mengs, Germany, active in Italy 1728 - 1779

Juno Seated on a Cloud

Anton Raphael Mengs, Germany, active in Italy 1728 - 1779 · 1750-1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a lion

Limestone statuette of a lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Blinding of Samson

The Blinding of Samson

Artist not stated in the record · 1786

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a lion

Limestone statuette of a lion

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study for a Painting: The Decapitation of Saint Catherine

Study for a Painting: The Decapitation of Saint Catherine

Artist not stated in the record · 1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of drunken Herakles

Bronze statuette of drunken Herakles

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

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statuette of Hercules

Bronze statuette of Hercules

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Limestone Bes

Limestone Bes

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th 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. 32 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. 3863497 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 05:07 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.