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. 16 shown for “Portrait Head Bottle” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:36 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.
Portrait Head Bottle

Portrait Head Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Young Woman, by Mortimer L. Menpes, Australian, active London, England, 1860 – after 1915

Study of a Young Woman

Mortimer L. Menpes, Australian, active London, England, 1860 – after 1915 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait Head Bottle

Portrait Head Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Mick-e-no-páh, Chief of the Tribe, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Mick-e-no-páh, Chief of the Tribe

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait Head Bottle

Portrait Head Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Wi-jún-jon, Pigeon's Egg Head (The Light) Going To and Returning From Washington, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Wi-jún-jon, Pigeon's Egg Head (The Light) Going To and Returning From Washington

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1837-1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with caiman, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Bottle with caiman

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1000–800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arvid Frederick Nyholm Self-Portrait, by Arvid Frederick Nyholm, 1866 - 1927

Arvid Frederick Nyholm Self-Portrait

Arvid Frederick Nyholm, 1866 - 1927 · 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Single Spout Portrait Head Bottle

Single Spout Portrait Head Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Bottle with portrait head, by Moche artist(s)

Bottle with portrait head

Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bottle with portrait head, by Moche artist(s)

Bottle with portrait head

Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Marble portrait head of the Emperor Constantine I

Marble portrait head of the Emperor Constantine I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 325–370 CE

Public domainThe Met
Stirrup-spout bottle with mountain sacrifice scene, by Moche artist

Stirrup-spout bottle with mountain sacrifice scene

Moche artist · 500–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Marble portrait of the emperor Augustus

Marble portrait of the emperor Augustus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14–37 CE

Public domainThe Met
Marble portrait bust of a woman

Marble portrait bust of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 155–165 CE

Public domainThe Met
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
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. 2385 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 116980 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:36 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.