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 an asymmetrically seated man” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:55 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 an asymmetrically seated man

Statue of an asymmetrically seated man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Bishop, by Tilman Riemenschneider

Seated Bishop

Tilman Riemenschneider · ca. 1495

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Title Page

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Seated Imhotep

Statue of Seated Imhotep

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Michel Odieuvre, French, 1687 – 1756

Title Page

Michel Odieuvre, French, 1687 – 1756 · 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated elder, by Tolita-Tumaco artist(s)

Seated elder

Tolita-Tumaco artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Seated Man, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Portrait of a Seated Man

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a draped seated man, by Zeuxis

Marble statue of a draped seated man

Zeuxis · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for Portrait of a Seated Man, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Sketch for Portrait of a Seated Man

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · ca. 1875

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
Sketch of Man Seated in Armchair, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Sketch of Man Seated in Armchair

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · ca. 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated man

Seated man

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

Public domainThe Met
Africa

Africa

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Siamun

Statue of Siamun

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

Public domainThe Met
Man Seated, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Man Seated

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man Holding a Shrine Containing an Image of Osiris

Man Holding a Shrine Containing an Image of Osiris

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated Man with Beard

Seated Man with Beard

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated bodhisattva (left attendant of a triad)

Seated bodhisattva (left attendant of a triad)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche with Lion, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Cartouche with Lion

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Statue of Hatshepsut

Seated Statue of Hatshepsut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Diligence à Panneaux, by Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century

Diligence à Panneaux

Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stelophorous Statue of Bay

Stelophorous Statue of Bay

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Quatre Parties du monde, by Joseph Gaspard Picart

Quatre Parties du monde

Joseph Gaspard Picart · ca. 1785

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. 1023 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. 2996503 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-28 18:55 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.