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 temple boy” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:47 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 temple boy

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

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

Public domainThe Met
Little Boy Blue, by Grace Lincoln Temple, 1865–1953

Little Boy Blue

Grace Lincoln Temple, 1865–1953 · 1890–1892

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
Vigna sp.

Vigna sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a seated temple boy on an inscribed base

Limestone statuette of a seated temple boy on an inscribed base

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

Public domainThe Met
Bandbox

Bandbox

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–45

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

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wisdom – Sapience

Wisdom – Sapience

Artist not stated in the record · 1787

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

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Indet. sp.

Indet. sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 2013

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

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Environs de Rome, by Charles Melchoir Descourtis, 1753–1820

Environs de Rome

Charles Melchoir Descourtis, 1753–1820 · 1784

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

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th or early 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Galactia tenuiflora (J.G. Klein ex Willd.) Wight & Arn.

Galactia tenuiflora (J.G. Klein ex Willd.) Wight & Arn.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 2013

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

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th or 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1785–1800

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

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th or early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Unidentified Classical Subject, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Unidentified Classical Subject

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1825-1850

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

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

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

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · 4th 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
Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

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

Public domainThe Met
Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza;

Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza;

Artist not stated in the record · 1802–05

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. 1080 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. 3862608 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 02:47 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.