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. 15 shown for “Statuette of a man” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 20:16 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.
Terracotta statuette of a man

Terracotta statuette of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stag, by Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875

Stag

Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875 · mid-19th century

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

Statuette of a man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1800 B.C.

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
Bronze statuette of a man

Bronze statuette of a man

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

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
Terracotta statuette of a man

Terracotta statuette of a man

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

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statuette of a man

Bronze statuette of a man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statuette of a man

Bronze statuette of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd quarter of the 5th century BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of a man seated on a horse

Terracotta statuette of a man seated on a horse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze statuette of a male votary

Bronze statuette of a male votary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of a man holding a quadruped

Terracotta statuette of a man holding a quadruped

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

Public domainThe Met
Marble statuette of a seated man

Marble statuette of a seated man

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Jasper statuette of a man wearing a toga

Jasper statuette of a man wearing a toga

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century 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. 11784 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. 3861825 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 20:16 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.