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 “Statue of Tjeteti in middle age” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:27 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 Tjeteti in middle age

Statue of Tjeteti in middle age

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2200–2152 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cavalry officers at a bridge in a town

Cavalry officers at a bridge in a town

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

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
Portrait of Ferdinando Cornacchia

Portrait of Ferdinando Cornacchia

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of the God Ptah

Statue of the God Ptah

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–721 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)

Portrait of Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statue of Eros sleeping

Bronze statue of Eros sleeping

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

Public domainThe Met
Susanna Mayrin of Augsburg

Susanna Mayrin of Augsburg

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Portrait of a Cardinal

Portrait of a Cardinal

Artist not stated in the record · 1620-1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Portrait of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558)

Portrait of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580-1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Claus de Werve

Virgin and Child

Claus de Werve · ca. 1415–17

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Guilielmo Caesarino

Portrait of Guilielmo Caesarino

Artist not stated in the record · 1695

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II in the Jubilee Garment

Statue of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II in the Jubilee Garment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Friedrich Ferdinand

Portrait of Friedrich Ferdinand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Portrait of Euphemo Bathio

Portrait of Euphemo Bathio

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Medallion Portraot of Joseph-Marie Vien

Medallion Portraot of Joseph-Marie Vien

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of an old woman

Marble statue of an old woman

Artist not stated in the record · 14–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of an Unknown Man

Portrait of an Unknown Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840–1850

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
Portrait of Marquis Niccola Santagelo

Portrait of Marquis Niccola Santagelo

Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1870

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. 3278 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. 7483507 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-27 03:27 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.