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. 19 shown for “Pig” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:43 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.
Pig

Pig

Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Pig

Pig

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pig

Pig

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Pig, by Unidentified

Pig

Unidentified · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pig

Pig

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sunset Sketch, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sunset Sketch

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August and September 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pig

Pig

Artist not stated in the record · 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Coyotes Stealing a Pig, by John Steuart Curry, born Dunavant, KS 1897-died Madison, WI 1946

Coyotes Stealing a Pig

John Steuart Curry, born Dunavant, KS 1897-died Madison, WI 1946 · 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Pig Painter

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Pig Painter · ca. 475–465 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Domestic Pig, Domestic Pig?, Domestic Pig?

Domestic Pig, Domestic Pig?, Domestic Pig?

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Pig Painter

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Pig Painter · ca. 475–465 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Domestic Pig

Domestic Pig

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pig in Recumbent Position

Pig in Recumbent Position

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

Public domainThe Met
Pig Weathervane, by Unidentified

Pig Weathervane

Unidentified · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pig in Recumbent Position

Pig in Recumbent Position

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

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta rattle in the form of a pig

Terracotta rattle in the form of a pig

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta vase in the form of a pig

Terracotta vase in the form of a pig

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statuette of a youth carrying a pig

Bronze statuette of a youth carrying a pig

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Set of twelve zodiac animals

Set of twelve zodiac animals

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

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. 326 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 2311 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 10:43 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.