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. 21 shown for “Standing man holding statuette of Nebethetepet or Nehemetaway” — 56 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 18:05 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.
Standing man holding statuette of Nebethetepet or Nehemetaway

Standing man holding statuette of Nebethetepet or Nehemetaway

Artist not stated in the record · 600–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Artist not stated in the record · 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nebethetepet or Nehemetaway

Nebethetepet or Nehemetaway

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Albumen print of a sharecropping family

Albumen print of a sharecropping family

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a male figure holding the head and neck of a mask or image

Terracotta statuette of a male figure holding the head and neck of a mask or image

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750–600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a man and woman standing on a sidewalk

Photograph of a man and woman standing on a sidewalk

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Achelous, by Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Hercules and Achelous

Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
The Fugitive's Story, by John Rogers, American, 1829 - 1904

The Fugitive's Story

John Rogers, American, 1829 - 1904 · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a flutist

Statuette of a flutist

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Figure

Figure

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Sebastian, by Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa)

Saint Sebastian

Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) · 1566

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of three women standing behind a seated man

Photograph of three women standing behind a seated man

Artist not stated in the record · 1884 - 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Satyr, by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Satyr

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1510–ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a staged sword duel

Photograph of a staged sword duel

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paris, by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Paris

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a man and a woman

Photograph of a man and a woman

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a man

Statuette of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile panel

Tile panel

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds, by Vittore Gambello

Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds

Vittore Gambello · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Warrior (Musketeer)

Warrior (Musketeer)

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Venus Marina, by Girolamo Campagna

Venus Marina

Girolamo Campagna · late 16th century–early 17th century

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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 2 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. 2897315 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-10 18:05 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.