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 “Reliquary Bust of a Woman” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:51 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.
Reliquary Bust of a Woman

Reliquary Bust of a Woman

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century in 15th century style

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary

Design for a Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara, by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara

Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Public domainThe Met
The Elevation of a Reliquary of a Skull

The Elevation of a Reliquary of a Skull

Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Bust of Saint Yrieix

Reliquary Bust of Saint Yrieix

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–40, with later grill

Public domainThe Met
Chasse with Saints and Angels

Chasse with Saints and Angels

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Bust of Saint Juliana, by Giovanni di Bartolo

Reliquary Bust of Saint Juliana

Giovanni di Bartolo · ca. 1376

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary of the Holy Cross, by Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575

Design for a Reliquary of the Holy Cross

Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · ca. 1540

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll

Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Bust of a Model, Rome, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Bust of a Model, Rome

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewish Woman of Algiers, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Jewish Woman of Algiers

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Project for a reliquary, intended to be executed in wood

Project for a reliquary, intended to be executed in wood

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Bust of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden

Reliquary Bust of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary for a Thorn of the Crown

Design for a Reliquary for a Thorn of the Crown

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Bust of a Female Saint

Reliquary Bust of a Female Saint

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520–30

Public domainThe Met
Bust Portrait of a Classical Woman, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Bust Portrait of a Classical Woman

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman from the French Colonies, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Woman from the French Colonies

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Bust of a Woman, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of Bust of a Woman

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Bust of a Female Saint

Reliquary Bust of a Female Saint

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Busts of Two Women

Busts of Two Women

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Bust of Saint Balbina

Reliquary Bust of Saint Balbina

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520–30

Public domainThe Met
Standing Woman, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Standing Woman

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Reliquary Cross, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Elevation of a Reliquary Cross

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–40

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. 333 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. 3854316 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-27 08:51 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.