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 herm” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 14:05 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 herm

Marble herm

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

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
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
Marble relief with Hermes

Marble relief with Hermes

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

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 herm head of a bearded deity

Marble herm head of a bearded deity

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450 BCE

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 head from a herm

Marble head from a herm

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

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
Marble head from a herm

Marble head from a herm

Artist not stated in the record · probably late 5th century BCE

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 head of a herm

Marble head of a herm

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

Public domainThe Met
Venus Complains to Jupiter, by Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562

Venus Complains to Jupiter

Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562 · mid-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of Hermes

Marble statue of Hermes

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

Public domainThe Met
Lonchocarpus vallicola (Standl. & F.J. Herm.) M. Sousa

Lonchocarpus vallicola (Standl. & F.J. Herm.) M. Sousa

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1949

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
Lonchocarpus vallicola (Standl. & F.J. Herm.) M. Sousa

Lonchocarpus vallicola (Standl. & F.J. Herm.) M. Sousa

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of Hermes, by Polykleitos

Marble statue of Hermes

Polykleitos · 1st or 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Lonchocarpus vallicola (Standl. & F.J. Herm.) M. Sousa

Lonchocarpus vallicola (Standl. & F.J. Herm.) M. Sousa

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Dec 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief of Hermes, three nymphs, and Acheloös

Marble relief of Hermes, three nymphs, and Acheloös

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 320–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lonchocarpus vallicola (Standl. & F.J. Herm.) M. Sousa

Lonchocarpus vallicola (Standl. & F.J. Herm.) M. Sousa

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble disk with a herm of Dionysus in relief

Marble disk with a herm of Dionysus in relief

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd quarter of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Carex bicknellii var. opaca F.J. Herm.

Carex bicknellii var. opaca F.J. Herm.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1969

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. 31 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 5428 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 14:05 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.