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. 19 shown for “Seated limestone kourotrophos” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:46 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 limestone kourotrophos

Seated limestone kourotrophos

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated Nude Girl, by John B. Flannagan, born Fargo, ND 1895-died New York City 1942

Seated Nude Girl

John B. Flannagan, born Fargo, ND 1895-died New York City 1942 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated limestone kourotrophos

Seated limestone kourotrophos

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated bodhisattva

Seated bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated limestone kourotrophos

Seated limestone kourotrophos

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist stele

Buddhist stele

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 564 C. E.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated limestone kourotrophos

Seated limestone kourotrophos

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Armchair with slip seat, by John Hewitt, American, 1777–1857

Armchair with slip seat

John Hewitt, American, 1777–1857 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated limestone kourotrophos

Seated limestone kourotrophos

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

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist stele

Buddhist stele

Artist not stated in the record · dated 511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated limestone kourotrophos

Seated limestone kourotrophos

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

Public domainThe Met
Limestone

Limestone

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated limestone kourotrophos

Seated limestone kourotrophos

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

Public domainThe Met
Audience chairs from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show at Harpo Studios

Audience chairs from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show at Harpo Studios

Artist not stated in the record · after 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated limestone kourotrophos with another child standing

Seated limestone kourotrophos with another child standing

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
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
Seated figure of Amun

Seated figure of Amun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Relief of the Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus

Relief of the Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus

Artist not stated in the record · 1264–88

Public domainThe Met
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
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. 170 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. 32945 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 01:46 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.