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 Mother Goddess” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:26 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.
Seated Mother Goddess

Seated Mother Goddess

Artist not stated in the record · 3000–2500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

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 Hindu Goddess

Seated Hindu Goddess

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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
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
Head of a goddess

Head of a goddess

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

Public domainThe Met
Overdoor

Overdoor

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

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
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 goddess

Seated goddess

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

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

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

The Goddess Durga Slaying the Demon Buffalo Mahisha

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

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 woman

Terracotta statuette of a seated woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Le Retour du Baptesme (Return from the Baptism), Plate IV, from Le Mariage à la Ville (Marriage in the City), by Abraham Bosse, French, 1602–1676

Le Retour du Baptesme (Return from the Baptism), Plate IV, from Le Mariage à la Ville (Marriage in the City)

Abraham Bosse, French, 1602–1676 · 1633

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
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

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 · 1800-1810

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
Seated Woman, Mother and Child, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664

Seated Woman, Mother and Child

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1645–50

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
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. 733 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 18555 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-03 00:26 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.