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. 15 shown for “Marble statuette of Dionysos” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:16 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 Dionysos

Marble statuette of Dionysos

Artist not stated in the record · early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Wall or Ceiling Decoration with Bacchus, Hymen and Venus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for Wall or Ceiling Decoration with Bacchus, Hymen and Venus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statuette of young Dionysos

Marble statuette of young Dionysos

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

Public domainThe Met
Figural Sketches, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Figural Sketches

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos"), by Pacetti, Vincenzo

Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos")

Pacetti, Vincenzo · 27 BCE–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Candlestick, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Candlestick

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons

Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 260–270 CE

Public domainThe Met
Marble statue of Dionysos seated on a panther, by François Duquesnoy

Marble statue of Dionysos seated on a panther

François Duquesnoy · 1st–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
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 female figure, by Bastis Master

Marble female figure

Bastis Master · 2600–2400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Marble statuette of a satyr

Marble statuette of a satyr

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Kneeling Black woman

Kneeling Black woman

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Marble statue of an old woman

Marble statue of an old woman

Artist not stated in the record · 14–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Marble statue of Pan or a satyr with winnowing basket filled with offerings and cultic objects

Marble statue of Pan or a satyr with winnowing basket filled with offerings and cultic objects

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 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. 384 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. 2859905 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 14:16 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.