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. 23 shown for “Royal bust” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:53 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.
Royal bust

Royal bust

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
LA POMPE DE LA SAMARITAINE, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LA POMPE DE LA SAMARITAINE

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1684–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Royal bust

Royal bust

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, Vasses de la Maison Royalle de L'oo Nouvellement (Vessels of the Royal House of L'oo), by Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752

Title Page, Vasses de la Maison Royalle de L'oo Nouvellement (Vessels of the Royal House of L'oo)

Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Royal bust with atypical snake

Royal bust with atypical snake

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Prospectus Armamentarii regii versus arcem Principis Regis (View of the Royal Armory opposite the Prince's Palace), by Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

Prospectus Armamentarii regii versus arcem Principis Regis (View of the Royal Armory opposite the Prince's Palace)

Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame de Wailly, née Adélaïde-Flore Belleville (1765–1838), by Augustin Pajou

Madame de Wailly, née Adélaïde-Flore Belleville (1765–1838)

Augustin Pajou · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Plate Commemorating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Plate Commemorating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Honoré de Balzac, by Auguste Rodin

Honoré de Balzac

Auguste Rodin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer Commemorating the Battle of Waterloo, by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Cup and Saucer Commemorating the Battle of Waterloo

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France, by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger

Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Four Cartouche Designs, by Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692

Four Cartouche Designs

Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Effigy Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Evreux, by Jean de Liège

Tomb Effigy Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Evreux

Jean de Liège · ca. 1381

Public domainThe Met
TItle Page, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

TItle Page

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Title Page

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hypocrite and a Slanderer, by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

A Hypocrite and a Slanderer

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt · ca. 1770–83

Public domainThe Met
Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal, by Frederik Christopher Krohn, Danish, 1806 - 1883

Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal

Frederik Christopher Krohn, Danish, 1806 - 1883 · April 18, 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of an Englishman, by Peter Anton von Verschaffelt

Bust of an Englishman

Peter Anton von Verschaffelt · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal, by Frederik Christopher Krohn, Danish, 1806 - 1883

Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal

Frederik Christopher Krohn, Danish, 1806 - 1883 · April 18, 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, by Giambologna

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Public domainThe Met
Hiram Powers, by Charles Francis Fuller, English, born England 1830-died Florence, Italy 1875

Hiram Powers

Charles Francis Fuller, English, born England 1830-died Florence, Italy 1875 · modeled ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of a royal figure with downward-hanging snake

Bust of a royal figure with downward-hanging snake

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 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. 204 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. 18739 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 14:53 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.