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. 18 shown for “Male Anthropomorph” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 13:58 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.
Male Anthropomorph

Male Anthropomorph

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 400–600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing figure, by Teotihuacan artist(s)

Standing figure

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Design, by Johann Ladenspelder, German, 1515 - ca. 1580

Ornamental Design

Johann Ladenspelder, German, 1515 - ca. 1580 · ca. 1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror-bearer, by Maya artist(s)

Mirror-bearer

Maya artist(s) · 410–650 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pin holder

Pin holder

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Male and Female Shinto Deities

Male and Female Shinto Deities

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
mask

mask

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature male effigy, by Inca artist(s)

Miniature male effigy

Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Trinity, by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

The Holy Trinity

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with a seated deity and a male worshiper

Medallion with a seated deity and a male worshiper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cloudy Sky, Hudson, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Cloudy Sky, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1870

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

Bronze statuette of a male votary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Figure with conical headdress and shield, by Maya artist(s)

Figure with conical headdress and shield

Maya artist(s) · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary bronze statuette of a male votary

Fragmentary bronze statuette of a male votary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze handle of a patera (shallow bowl)

Bronze handle of a patera (shallow bowl)

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

Public domainThe Met
Male Figurine

Male Figurine

Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1533

Public domainThe Met
Jug neck in shape of male head

Jug neck in shape of male head

Artist not stated in the record · 750–600 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. 45 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 671210 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 13:58 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.