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 “Statuette of a standing goddess” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 04:00 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.
Statuette of a standing goddess

Statuette of a standing goddess

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–500 BC

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

Stag

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

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
Standing Guanyin ("Goddess of Mercy")

Standing Guanyin ("Goddess of Mercy")

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a goddess

Head of a goddess

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Antique Goddesses, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Four Antique Goddesses

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · after 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of Taweret

Statuette of Taweret

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1504 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
Terracotta statuette of a goddess

Terracotta statuette of a goddess

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jupiter consoles an imploring goddess, probably Venus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Jupiter consoles an imploring goddess, probably Venus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1796–98

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a woman

Terracotta statuette of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statuette of the goddess Hekate, by Alkamenes

Marble statuette of the goddess Hekate

Alkamenes · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Six Antique Gods and Goddesses, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Six Antique Gods and Goddesses

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · after 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand

Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand

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

Public domainThe Met
Standing Songzi Guanyin

Standing Songzi Guanyin

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Virgin and Child, by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden

Standing Virgin and Child

Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Seated Hindu Goddess

Seated Hindu Goddess

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lion-headed goddess

Lion-headed goddess

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Bedroom Furniture

Design for Bedroom Furniture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lion-Headed Goddess

Lion-Headed Goddess

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Parvati

Standing Parvati

Artist not stated in the record · ca. first quarter 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Diana and Endymion, by Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650

Diana and Endymion

Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1650

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. 924 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. 3853870 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-05 04:00 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.