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 a man” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:41 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
Lincoln, by Gutzon Borglum, born Bear Lake, ID 1867-died Chicago, IL 1941

Lincoln

Gutzon Borglum, born Bear Lake, ID 1867-died Chicago, IL 1941 · ca. 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a man from a grave stele

Marble head of a man from a grave stele

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 325 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Details in Classical and Pseudo-Classical Style, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Architectural Details in Classical and Pseudo-Classical Style

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

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

Marble head of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 69–96 CE

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 head of a man

Marble head of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing for a candelabrum

Drawing for a candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a man wearing a laurel wreath

Marble head of a man wearing a laurel wreath

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

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
Commode, by André Charles Boulle

Commode

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
Altar Mensa for the Capella Paolina (Borghese Chapel), Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italy, by Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804

Altar Mensa for the Capella Paolina (Borghese Chapel), Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italy

Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804 · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a bearded man

Marble head of a bearded man

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulchral Monument for Three Brothers

Design for a Sepulchral Monument for Three Brothers

Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a bearded man

Marble head of a bearded man

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of an Old Man

Portrait of an Old Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a bearded man from a grave marker

Marble head of a bearded man from a grave marker

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 325 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vase

Design for a Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a bearded man from a herm

Marble head of a bearded man from a herm

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Left Halves of Escutcheons, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Four Left Halves of Escutcheons

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1692–99

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 Man, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Head of a Man, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1883–1884

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
Allegorical Figure of "America", by Alcora Ceramic Factory, Spanish, 1727 – 1858

Allegorical Figure of "America"

Alcora Ceramic Factory, Spanish, 1727 – 1858 · mid- 18th–early 19th century

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. 2996 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. 3880428 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-01 11:41 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.