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 “Plaque with Goddess and Attendant” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:38 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.
Plaque with Goddess and Attendant

Plaque with Goddess and Attendant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Trophée de Chasse, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Trophée de Chasse

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1775–76

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goddess who bestows riches, probably Sri Lakshmi

Goddess who bestows riches, probably Sri Lakshmi

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plaque of Sarasvati (Goddess of Learning and Culture), by Unidentified

Plaque of Sarasvati (Goddess of Learning and Culture)

Unidentified · 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with equestrian ọ́bà (king) and attendants, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque with equestrian ọ́bà (king) and attendants

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690

Title Page

Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690 · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque, by Chelsea Keramic Art Works

Plaque

Chelsea Keramic Art Works · ca. 1878–82

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690

Title Page

Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690 · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with a Winged Goddess and Two Attendants

Plaque with a Winged Goddess and Two Attendants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Charger with Alexander the Great Defeating Darius Surrounded by the Four Continents

Charger with Alexander the Great Defeating Darius Surrounded by the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 1689

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque Depicting a Goddess or Queen, and on Opposite Side a King

Plaque Depicting a Goddess or Queen, and on Opposite Side a King

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · possibly late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gaja Lakshmi, Goddess of Fortune

Gaja Lakshmi, Goddess of Fortune

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · possibly late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sardonyx cameo of a goddess flanked by attendants

Sardonyx cameo of a goddess flanked by attendants

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

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: O Goddess! Mother!, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: O Goddess! Mother!

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Warrior and Attendants, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque with Warrior and Attendants

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Public domainThe Met
Plaque with design of scholar, by Inoue Ryokichi

Plaque with design of scholar

Inoue Ryokichi · 1840-1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque Fragment with Warrior and Attendant, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque Fragment with Warrior and Attendant

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Public domainThe Met
Seated Hindu Goddess

Seated Hindu Goddess

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Ìyàsẹ́ (Royal Commander) and Attendant, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque with Ìyàsẹ́ (Royal Commander) and Attendant

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Public domainThe Met
The Goddess Diana Leaning on an Outcropping, by Francesco Brizzi, Italian, 1574 - 1623

The Goddess Diana Leaning on an Outcropping

Francesco Brizzi, Italian, 1574 - 1623 · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist Attendant

Buddhist Attendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Antique Goddesses, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Four Antique Goddesses

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · after 1850

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. 161 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1522559 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-08 09:38 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.