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. 23 shown for “Marble head of a Greek general” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:58 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.
Marble head of a Greek general

Marble head of a Greek general

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

Public domainThe Met
[Hiram Powers's sculpture of The Greek Slave], by Unidentified

[Hiram Powers's sculpture of The Greek Slave]

Unidentified · 1848-1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Model of the Greek Slave, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Model of the Greek Slave

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
The Greek Slave, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

The Greek Slave

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1843

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

Commode

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
The Greek Slave, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

The Greek Slave

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1841-1843

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
Dancing Figure, by Elie Nadelman, born Warsaw, Poland 1882-died New York City 1946

Dancing Figure

Elie Nadelman, born Warsaw, Poland 1882-died New York City 1946 · ca. 1916-1918

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
The Greek Slave, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

The Greek Slave

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1841-1843, carved ca. 1873

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 a Fury

Head of a Fury

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

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
Marble grave stele of a little girl

Marble grave stele of a little girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Baby's Left Hand (unfinished), by Studio of Hiram Powers, founded Florence, Italy 1837-closed 1873

Baby's Left Hand (unfinished)

Studio of Hiram Powers, founded Florence, Italy 1837-closed 1873 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of Eirene (the personification of peace), by Kephisodotos

Marble statue of Eirene (the personification of peace)

Kephisodotos · ca. 14–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing for a candelabrum

Drawing for a candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

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
Head of Apollo, by Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831

Head of Apollo

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

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

Commode

Charles Cressent · ca. 1745–49

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. 19715 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. 3874590 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:58 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.