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 “Marble female herm” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 11:45 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.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Table, by Claude Niquet, French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831

Design for a Table

Claude Niquet, French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble female herm

Marble female herm

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Niche with a Buffet, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Niche with a Buffet

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by André Charles Boulle

Commode

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
Carex scopulorum var. bracteosa (L.H. Bailey) F.J. Herm.

Carex scopulorum var. bracteosa (L.H. Bailey) F.J. Herm.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewish Woman of Algiers, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Jewish Woman of Algiers

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Three Herms, Studies after Carracci, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Three Herms, Studies after Carracci

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos"), by Pacetti, Vincenzo

Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos")

Pacetti, Vincenzo · 27 BCE–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Four Herms, Studies after the Carracci, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Four Herms, Studies after the Carracci

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble female figure

Marble female figure

Artist not stated in the record · 4500–4000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fork and Two Spoons, by Unknown

Design for a Fork and Two Spoons

Unknown · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman from the French Colonies, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Woman from the French Colonies

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Handle in the Form of a Female Herm

Fork with Handle in the Form of a Female Herm

Artist not stated in the record · 1600 -1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble herm

Marble herm

Artist not stated in the record · 1st or 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Interior Wall Elevations, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Interior Wall Elevations

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1696–1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble female figure, by Bastis Master

Marble female figure

Bastis Master · 2600–2400 BCE

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

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of seven-light candelabra (candélabres or girandoles)

Pair of seven-light candelabra (candélabres or girandoles)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kneeling Black woman

Kneeling Black woman

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Phaethon rubricauda

Phaethon rubricauda

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief with Hermes

Marble relief with Hermes

Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sula sula

Sula sula

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 1923

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. 365 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. 547145 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-31 11:45 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.