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. 16 shown for “Statue of Siamun” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:31 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.
Statue of Siamun

Statue of Siamun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Mixed Sketches with a Lion Statue, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mixed Sketches with a Lion Statue, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1883–1884

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
INAUGURATION DE LA STATUË DE LOUIS XV, by Saint-Aubin Gabriel de, French, 1724 – 1780

INAUGURATION DE LA STATUË DE LOUIS XV

Saint-Aubin Gabriel de, French, 1724 – 1780 · 1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
9c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single

9c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of Eirene (the personification of peace), by Kephisodotos

Marble statue of Eirene (the personification of peace)

Kephisodotos · ca. 14–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Nine Circular Compositions with Diety Subject Matter, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Nine Circular Compositions with Diety Subject Matter

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Column Statue of a King

Column Statue of a King

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Marble statue of a lion

Marble statue of a lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statue of Eros sleeping

Bronze statue of Eros sleeping

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Marble statue of a wounded warrior

Marble statue of a wounded warrior

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 138–181 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus

Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus

Artist not stated in the record · 251–253 CE

Public domainThe Met
Limestone statue of Aphrodite holding winged Eros

Limestone statue of Aphrodite holding winged Eros

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy

Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy

Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–14 CE

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. 5156 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. 2977924 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 22:31 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.