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. 18 shown for “Marble statuette of Aphrodite” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:27 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 statuette of Aphrodite

Marble statuette of Aphrodite

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

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

Psyche

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statuette of Aphrodite

Marble statuette of Aphrodite

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

Public domainThe Met
Aphrodite Fritillary

Aphrodite Fritillary

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statuette of Aphrodite Anadyomene (rising)

Marble statuette of Aphrodite Anadyomene (rising)

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Chlorocypha aphrodite

Chlorocypha aphrodite

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statuette of Aphrodite Anadyomene (rising)

Marble statuette of Aphrodite Anadyomene (rising)

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Parus major aphrodite

Parus major aphrodite

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Nov 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statuette of Aphrodite Anadyomene (rising) type

Marble statuette of Aphrodite Anadyomene (rising) type

Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Marble statue of Aphrodite

Marble statue of Aphrodite

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Parus major aphrodite

Parus major aphrodite

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Apr 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of Aphrodite loosening her sandal

Marble statue of Aphrodite loosening her sandal

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statuette of Aphrodite

Bronze statuette of Aphrodite

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 150–100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Marble statue of a crouching Aphrodite

Marble statue of a crouching Aphrodite

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

Public domainThe Met
Parus major aphrodite

Parus major aphrodite

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble female figure

Marble female figure

Artist not stated in the record · 4500–4000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Marble seated harp player

Marble seated harp player

Artist not stated in the record · 2800–2700 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Marble statue of Aphrodite

Marble statue of Aphrodite

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

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. 405 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 2859925 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-29 08:27 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.