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 “Monumental Head of a Foreigner” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 16:05 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.
Monumental Head of a Foreigner

Monumental Head of a Foreigner

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument to a Hero, by Unknown, Italian

Sepulchral Monument to a Hero

Unknown, Italian · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Kneeling Captive

Statue of Kneeling Captive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of Marquis de Lafayette (Lafayette Monument, Paris, France), by Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925

Head of Marquis de Lafayette (Lafayette Monument, Paris, France)

Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925 · modeled 1899-1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen

Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 270–250 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Attendants in a Procession

Attendants in a Procession

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Monument, column and spiral staircase, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Monument, column and spiral staircase

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of King David

Head of King David

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument

Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand

Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of the God Reshef

Statue of the God Reshef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design of a Sepulcher Monument for a Prelate

Design of a Sepulcher Monument for a Prelate

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Public domainThe Met
Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards

Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards

Artist not stated in the record · August 3, 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulcher Monument for a Couple

Design for a Sepulcher Monument for a Couple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head

Head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for a monument to be fastened to a wall, by Domenico Mondo, Italian, 1723 - 1806

Sketch for a monument to be fastened to a wall

Domenico Mondo, Italian, 1723 - 1806 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Head of Victory, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907

Head of Victory

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ùhúnmwèlaò (head of an ọ́bà), by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Ùhúnmwèlaò (head of an ọ́bà)

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · Mid-16th–late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France

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

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. 1346 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. 3875836 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 16:05 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.