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. 13 shown for “Nursing woman” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 23:51 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.
Nursing woman

Nursing woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2420–2389 BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Tusk, by Kongo artist

Tusk

Kongo artist · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a nursing mother

Limestone statuette of a nursing mother

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd quarter of 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated limestone kourotrophos

Seated limestone kourotrophos

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Group of two women and a child

Group of two women and a child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1500 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Relief Depicting the Nurse Tia

Relief Depicting the Nurse Tia

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

Public domainThe Met
Hollow Vessel in the Shape of a Woman Holding a Child

Hollow Vessel in the Shape of a Woman Holding a Child

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with a woman spinning and a woman nursing a child, by Johann Balzer

Landscape with a woman spinning and a woman nursing a child

Johann Balzer · ca. 1760–99

Public domainThe Met
Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist, by Francesco Granacci (Francesco di Andrea di Marco)

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist

Francesco Granacci (Francesco di Andrea di Marco) · ca. 1506–7

Public domainThe Met
Design Amulet, Woman Suckling a Child on Back, Device showing Geometricized Monkeys

Design Amulet, Woman Suckling a Child on Back, Device showing Geometricized Monkeys

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2080–2010 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Jar in the Form of a Woman Playing a Lyre

Jar in the Form of a Woman Playing a Lyre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jug in the shape of a woman's head

Jug in the shape of a woman's head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design Amulet, Back in the Form of a Woman Suckling a Child, Device showing Two Lizards Head-to-tail

Design Amulet, Back in the Form of a Woman Suckling a Child, Device showing Two Lizards Head-to-tail

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2100–2080 B.C.

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. 80 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 37747 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 23:51 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.