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 Statue of King Senwosret I” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:53 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.
Seated Statue of King Senwosret I

Seated Statue of King Senwosret I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Seated kingly figure, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Seated kingly figure

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King Clovis I

King Clovis I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
King David, by Bicchierari, Antonio, Italian, 1706 - 1751

King David

Bicchierari, Antonio, Italian, 1706 - 1751 · 1750–66

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King Clothar I

King Clothar I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
Alexander the Great Taming Bucephalus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Alexander the Great Taming Bucephalus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Senwosret III as a Sphinx

Senwosret III as a Sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1840 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
25c Statue of Kamehameha I design record

25c Statue of Kamehameha I design record

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Statue of the Steward Sehetepibreankh

Seated Statue of the Steward Sehetepibreankh

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1885 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Seated Woman (Queen Isabella I of Spain), by Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Study of a Seated Woman (Queen Isabella I of Spain)

Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief showing procession of offering bearers

Relief showing procession of offering bearers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Queen Esther and Ahasuerus

Queen Esther and Ahasuerus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Scene with Senwosret I

Ritual Scene with Senwosret I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
25c Statue of Kamehameha I photograph model

25c Statue of Kamehameha I photograph model

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Kalakaua I, by Unidentified Artist

Kalakaua I

Unidentified Artist · c. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colossal Statue of Amenhotep III, reworked, reinscribed by Merneptah

Colossal Statue of Amenhotep III, reworked, reinscribed by Merneptah

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

Public domainThe Met
Napoleon Bonaparte, by Auguste G. L. Boucher-Desnoyers, 1779 - 1857

Napoleon Bonaparte

Auguste G. L. Boucher-Desnoyers, 1779 - 1857 · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head from a Statue of King Amenhotep I

Head from a Statue of King Amenhotep I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Girl with a Frog, by Louise Howland King Cox, American, 1865–1945

Sketch of a Girl with a Frog

Louise Howland King Cox, American, 1865–1945 · ca. 1895–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen

Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tableau Allégorique, pour L’Année Jubilaire du Regne de Louis Le Bien-Aimé, by Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England

Tableau Allégorique, pour L’Année Jubilaire du Regne de Louis Le Bien-Aimé

Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Face of Senwosret III

Face of Senwosret III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1840 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
5c Statue of Kamehameha I die proof, by American Bank Note Company

5c Statue of Kamehameha I die proof

American Bank Note Company · 1894

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. 540 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. 3093011 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-26 20:53 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.