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 “Manasa, the Snake Goddess” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:39 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.
Manasa, the Snake Goddess

Manasa, the Snake Goddess

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Ewer with Manasa, the Snake Goddess

Ritual Ewer with Manasa, the Snake Goddess

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Time (Chronos) Entrusting Cupid to Venus, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727 – 1804

Time (Chronos) Entrusting Cupid to Venus

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727 – 1804 · ca. 1757

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet of a lion-headed Bastet

Amulet of a lion-headed Bastet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 853c664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Minerva Giustiniani, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Minerva Giustiniani

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nehebkau (snake deity) holding a wedjat eye

Nehebkau (snake deity) holding a wedjat eye

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jupiter consoles an imploring goddess, probably Venus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Jupiter consoles an imploring goddess, probably Venus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1796–98

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Counterweight of a menit necklace with an image of Bastet nursing King Taharqo

Counterweight of a menit necklace with an image of Bastet nursing King Taharqo

Artist not stated in the record · 690–645 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Goddess Diana Leaning on an Outcropping, by Francesco Brizzi, Italian, 1574 - 1623

The Goddess Diana Leaning on an Outcropping

Francesco Brizzi, Italian, 1574 - 1623 · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil

Chamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Overdoor

Overdoor

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a snake-headed deity

Statuette of a snake-headed deity

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: O Goddess! Mother!, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: O Goddess! Mother!

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of gold and glass earrings with baby Herakles

Pair of gold and glass earrings with baby Herakles

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ceiling Painting: Diana Selene Perceives Endymion

Design for a Ceiling Painting: Diana Selene Perceives Endymion

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Magical container in the shape of a hippo goddess

Magical container in the shape of a hippo goddess

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Antique Goddesses, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Four Antique Goddesses

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · after 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar), by Nausicaä Painter

Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar)

Nausicaä Painter · ca. 460–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a surtout de table (Centerpiece)

Design for a surtout de table (Centerpiece)

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar), by Niobid Painter

Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar)

Niobid Painter · ca. 460–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II

Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1878 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Fortuna, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of Fortuna

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

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. 62 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1186483 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 20:39 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.