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 statuette of a boy holding a dove” — 64 records examined, 22 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 statuette of a boy holding a dove

Limestone statuette of a boy holding a dove

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for a Reliquary

Sketch for a Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a boy holding a dove

Limestone statuette of a boy holding a dove

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 5th 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 a temple boy

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Button with Painted Lady Holding a Dove

Button with Painted Lady Holding a Dove

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone temple boy

Limestone temple boy

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

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
Venus (Design for a Wall Painting), by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Venus (Design for a Wall Painting)

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · 1875–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone temple boy

Limestone temple boy

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

Public domainThe Met
Figure

Figure

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone temple boy

Limestone temple boy

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

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of the Triumph of the Church, Third Scene, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Allegory of the Triumph of the Church, Third Scene

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a woman holding a bird

Terracotta statuette of a woman holding a bird

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

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Female Figure with a Dove, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of Female Figure with a Dove

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Valentine

Valentine

Artist not stated in the record · 1870–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove

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

Public domainThe Met
Panel of Arabesques for the Hôtel de Salm, Paris, by Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French, 1746–1810

Panel of Arabesques for the Hôtel de Salm, Paris

Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French, 1746–1810 · 1785

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

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

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

Public domainThe Met
The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury, by William Henry Hunt, British, 1790–1864

The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury

William Henry Hunt, British, 1790–1864 · 1823

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
Study of a Young Boy

Study of a Young Boy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

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. 128 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. 3861982 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.