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. 20 shown for “Marble hekataion (statuette of triple-bodied Hekate) and the three Graces” — 48 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 04:40 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 hekataion (statuette of triple-bodied Hekate) and the three Graces

Marble hekataion (statuette of triple-bodied Hekate) and the three Graces

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

Public domainThe Met
Three Graces, by Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797

Three Graces

Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797 · 1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statuette of the goddess Hekate, by Alkamenes

Marble statuette of the goddess Hekate

Alkamenes · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble hekataion

Marble hekataion

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Toddy lifter (syphon)

Toddy lifter (syphon)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paris, by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Paris

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charity, by Claudius Floris

Charity

Claudius Floris · 1536–1547/48

Public domainThe Met
Urn (One of a Pair), by Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries

Urn (One of a Pair)

Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alessandro Vittoria (1525–1608), by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Alessandro Vittoria (1525–1608)

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · ca. 1580

Public domainThe Met
Urn (One of a Pair), by Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries

Urn (One of a Pair)

Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot), by Severo Calzetta da Ravenna

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · first half of the 16th century?

Public domainThe Met
Decanter and stopper

Decanter and stopper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1783–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The suicide of Ajax, by Giovanni Battista Foggini

The suicide of Ajax

Giovanni Battista Foggini · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Samuel Ely

Carte-de-visite portrait of Samuel Ely

Artist not stated in the record · 1862-1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carte-de-visite portrait of Sally Cadwallader Ely

Carte-de-visite portrait of Sally Cadwallader Ely

Artist not stated in the record · 1862-1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decanter and stopper

Decanter and stopper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carte-de-visite portrait of Isabel and Herbert Howland

Carte-de-visite portrait of Isabel and Herbert Howland

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffeepot with Battle Scenes (Bataillen-Malerei), by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Coffeepot with Battle Scenes (Bataillen-Malerei)

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1870–1900

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1904367 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 04:40 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.