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 youthful votary wearing a pointed cap” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:33 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 youthful votary wearing a pointed cap

Limestone statuette of a youthful votary wearing a pointed cap

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

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a girl named Gladys in cap and gown

Photograph of a girl named Gladys in cap and gown

Artist not stated in the record · 1910s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Untitled, by Lewis Wickes Hine, American, 1874 - 1940

Untitled

Lewis Wickes Hine, American, 1874 - 1940 · ca. 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
"Brownies" Characters, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

"Brownies" Characters

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of beardless male votary in Greek dress

Limestone statuette of beardless male votary in Greek dress

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

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Turbaned Youth

Head of a Turbaned Youth

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–40

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
Child Wearing a Cap or Crown, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Child Wearing a Cap or Crown

Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Man Wearing Zouave's Cap, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Man Wearing Zouave's Cap

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · ca. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of a wreathed youth

Limestone head of a wreathed youth

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Bearded Man Wearing a Velvet Cap with a Jewel Clasp

A Bearded Man Wearing a Velvet Cap with a Jewel Clasp

Artist not stated in the record · 1637

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of a man wearing a helmet

Limestone head of a man wearing a helmet

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

Public domainThe Met
Lekythos with Youth Holding Lances

Lekythos with Youth Holding Lances

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of a wreathed youth

Limestone head of a wreathed youth

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Self Portrait Wearing a Soft Cap: Full Face, Head only

Self Portrait Wearing a Soft Cap: Full Face, Head only

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1634

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her Arms

Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her Arms

Artist not stated in the record · 610–595 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of a caravan of dromedary camels pulling a wagon of men

Photographic postcard of a caravan of dromedary camels pulling a wagon of men

Artist not stated in the record · 1902-1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a youth

Bronze statuette of a youth

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-viste of officer's quarters at Fort Brown

Carte-de-viste of officer's quarters at Fort Brown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue of a youth holding a pyxis

Limestone statue of a youth holding a pyxis

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

Public domainThe Met
A Youthful Pilgrim

A Youthful Pilgrim

Artist not stated in the record · 1575–1600

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. 69 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. 4490910 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 07:33 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.