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 male figure” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 18:41 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.
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
The Bronzes

The Bronzes

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Public domainThe Met
Boy Playing Marbles, by David Gilmour Blythe, born East Liverpool, OH 1815-died Pittsburgh, PA 1865

Boy Playing Marbles

David Gilmour Blythe, born East Liverpool, OH 1815-died Pittsburgh, PA 1865 · ca. 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode (commode à vantaux) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Commode (commode à vantaux) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vase

Design for a Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–1760

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
Henry Elliott Johnston, Jr. as "Cupid Stringing His Bow", by William Henry Rinehart, born Union Bridge, MD 1825-died Rome, Italy 1874

Henry Elliott Johnston, Jr. as "Cupid Stringing His Bow"

William Henry Rinehart, born Union Bridge, MD 1825-died Rome, Italy 1874 · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Semi-Nude Youth (Mountain Boy?), by Larkin Goldsmith Mead, born Chesterfield, NH 1835-died Florence, Italy 1910

Semi-Nude Youth (Mountain Boy?)

Larkin Goldsmith Mead, born Chesterfield, NH 1835-died Florence, Italy 1910 · ca. 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Who Sits at the Little Marble Tables, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Who Sits at the Little Marble Tables

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble male figure

Marble male figure

Artist not stated in the record · 2400–2300 BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Il Penseroso, by Joseph Mozier, born Burlington, VT 1812-died Faido, Switzerland 1870

Il Penseroso

Joseph Mozier, born Burlington, VT 1812-died Faido, Switzerland 1870 · 1866

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

Commode

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
The Truant, by Randolph Rogers, born Waterloo, NY 1825-died Rome, Italy 1892

The Truant

Randolph Rogers, born Waterloo, NY 1825-died Rome, Italy 1892 · 1853

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
Design for a Vase Clock in Egyptian Style, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Vase Clock in Egyptian Style

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · ca. 1783

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
Woman from the French Colonies, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Woman from the French Colonies

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Figure of a "Dancing Indian"

Figure of a "Dancing Indian"

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble-top table, by Theophil Hansen

Marble-top table

Theophil Hansen · ca. 1855–65

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall - fragment

Sidewall - fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

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. 6027 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. 707196 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 2026-09-06 18:41 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.