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 “Seated Hindu Goddess” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:18 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.
Head of a goddess

Head of a goddess

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated Hindu Goddess

Seated Hindu Goddess

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated goddess

Seated goddess

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Durga Mahishasuramardini ("Slayer of the Buffalo Demon")

Durga Mahishasuramardini ("Slayer of the Buffalo Demon")

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of the Goddess Sakhmet

Statue of the Goddess Sakhmet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645-1655

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goddess Durga Slaying the Demon Mahisha

Goddess Durga Slaying the Demon Mahisha

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Overdoor

Overdoor

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Mother Goddess

Seated Mother Goddess

Artist not stated in the record · 3000–2500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study for Painting, Mount Olympus, by Vito D'Anna, Italian, 1718 - 1769

Study for Painting, Mount Olympus

Vito D'Anna, Italian, 1718 - 1769 · 1750–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Mother Goddess

Seated Mother Goddess

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3000–2500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated Guanyin (?)

Seated Guanyin (?)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a seated goddess

Terracotta statuette of a seated goddess

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta figurine of a seated goddess

Terracotta figurine of a seated goddess

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a seated goddess

Terracotta statuette of a seated goddess

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a seated woman

Terracotta statuette of a seated woman

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Diana and Endymion, by Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650

Diana and Endymion

Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a seated goddess

Terracotta statuette of a seated goddess

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Mother Goddess Men Brajut (Hariti)

The Mother Goddess Men Brajut (Hariti)

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Mars and Juno; Mercury and Diana set in Diagonal Composition, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Mars and Juno; Mercury and Diana set in Diagonal Composition

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1815

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. 374 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. 12212 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-02 22:18 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.