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 “Male Figure on Stool” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 21:40 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 Figure on Stool (tunjo)

Male Figure on Stool (tunjo)

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
The Clown, by Jules Cheret, French, born Paris, France 1836-died Nice, France 1932

The Clown

Jules Cheret, French, born Paris, France 1836-died Nice, France 1932 · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Male Figure on Stool

Male Figure on Stool

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Victory holding Bowknot and Trumpet; sketches of Wall Section and Stool, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketch of Victory holding Bowknot and Trumpet; sketches of Wall Section and Stool

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiki (male figure), by Mangarevan artist

Tiki (male figure)

Mangarevan artist · Early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Female Nude on a Stool, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Female Nude on a Stool

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated binukedine ( priest), by Dogon blacksmith

Seated binukedine ( priest)

Dogon blacksmith · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Seated Figures, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Seated Figures

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1877–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smiling figure (Sonriente), by South central Veracruz artist(s)

Smiling figure (Sonriente)

South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
William Howard Russell, by Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870?

William Howard Russell

Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870? · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta Little Master cup

Terracotta Little Master cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 565–550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Male Figure (Moai Tangata)

Male Figure (Moai Tangata)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Encampment of the Exploring Party in Lew Chew, by P. S. Duval & Son Lithography Co., active 1838 - 1869

Encampment of the Exploring Party in Lew Chew

P. S. Duval & Son Lithography Co., active 1838 - 1869 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Male figure, by Soninke blacksmith

Male figure

Soninke blacksmith · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
The Blockmaker, by Edgar Melville Ward, born Urbana, OH 1839-died New York City 1915

The Blockmaker

Edgar Melville Ward, born Urbana, OH 1839-died New York City 1915 · n.d.

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

Standing figure

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Four of Spades, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Four of Spades

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gwantigi, by Bamana numu (blacksmith)

Gwantigi

Bamana numu (blacksmith) · 15th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
"Uncle Sam's New Class in the Art of Self-Government," Harper's Weekly, by William Allen Rogers, 1854 - 1931

"Uncle Sam's New Class in the Art of Self-Government," Harper's Weekly

William Allen Rogers, 1854 - 1931 · August 27, 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing male worshiper

Standing male worshiper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2900–2600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Girl on a Hassock, by Unidentified (European)

Girl on a Hassock

Unidentified (European) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coca chewer on bench, by Capulí artist(s)

Coca chewer on bench

Capulí artist(s) · 800–1500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Standing Female Nude, by Carl Newman, born Philadelphia, PA 1858-died Abington, PA 1932

Standing Female Nude

Carl Newman, born Philadelphia, PA 1858-died Abington, PA 1932

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. 2326 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 1632657 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-09 21:40 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.