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 head of Apollo” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:42 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.
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Candlestick

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of Apollo

Marble head of Apollo

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Candlestick

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of Apollo with fragment of his hand

Marble head of Apollo with fragment of his hand

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

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

Design for an Alcove 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
Design for a Mantlepiece and Overmantle, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Mantlepiece and Overmantle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Low cabinet (meuble à hauteur d'appui) (one of a pair), by André Charles Boulle

Low cabinet (meuble à hauteur d'appui) (one of a pair)

André Charles Boulle · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Head of Apollo, by Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831

Head of Apollo

Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Low cabinet (meuble à hauteur d'appui) (one of a pair), by André Charles Boulle

Low cabinet (meuble à hauteur d'appui) (one of a pair)

André Charles Boulle · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)

Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apollo, by Adriaen de Vries

Apollo

Adriaen de Vries · ca. 1594–98

Public domainThe Met
Engraving: Versailles, Grotto, Interior., by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Engraving: Versailles, Grotto, Interior.

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1676

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
Drawing for a candelabrum

Drawing for a candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

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

Commode

Charles Cressent · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Bodhisattva Mounted on a Marble Column, by Unidentified

Head of a Bodhisattva Mounted on a Marble Column

Unidentified · 619-907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Public domainThe Met
Jupiter and Hebe, Apollo and Terspsichore., by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Jupiter and Hebe, Apollo and Terspsichore.

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Barberini Cabinet, by Galleria dei Lavori, Florence

Barberini Cabinet

Galleria dei Lavori, Florence · ca. 1606–23

Public domainThe Met
Apollo Belvedere, by Unidentified (European)

Apollo Belvedere

Unidentified (European) · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen

Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 270–250 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Triumph of Apollo and Aurora, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Triumph of Apollo and Aurora

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585–1590

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. 1321 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. 2883228 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-02 13:42 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.