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 “Stele of the protective goddess Lama” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 12:28 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.
Stele of the protective goddess Lama

Stele of the protective goddess Lama

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1307–1282 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Original dies)

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Original dies)

Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goddess Durga Slaying the Demon Mahisha

Goddess Durga Slaying the Demon Mahisha

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Libertas Americana, United States, 1782-3

Libertas Americana, United States, 1782-3

Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winged Goddess, probably Nut or Isis

Winged Goddess, probably Nut or Isis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–332 BCE

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

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Twenty-One Emanations of the Goddess Tara

Twenty-One Emanations of the Goddess Tara

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint, original dies)

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint, original dies)

Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint), by Dupre, Augustin

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint)

Dupre, Augustin · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet of a lion-headed Bastet

Amulet of a lion-headed Bastet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 853c664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist stele

Buddhist stele

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 520s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Goddess Durga Victorious over the Buffalo Demon, Mahisha (Mahishasuramardini)

The Goddess Durga Victorious over the Buffalo Demon, Mahisha (Mahishasuramardini)

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint, original dies)

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint, original dies)

Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Artist not stated in the record · 595–526 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Goddess Diana Leaning on an Outcropping, by Francesco Brizzi, Italian, 1574 - 1623

The Goddess Diana Leaning on an Outcropping

Francesco Brizzi, Italian, 1574 - 1623 · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lintel depicting King Amenemhat I flanked by Nekhbet, Horus, Anubis, and Wadjet

Lintel depicting King Amenemhat I flanked by Nekhbet, Horus, Anubis, and Wadjet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Overdoor

Overdoor

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a hippo goddess, probably Taweret

Statuette of a hippo goddess, probably Taweret

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: O Goddess! Mother!, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: O Goddess! Mother!

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lion-headed goddess suckling the king

Lion-headed goddess suckling the king

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 708–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a surtout de table (Centerpiece)

Design for a surtout de table (Centerpiece)

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vishnu Accompanied by Lakshmi and Sarasvati

Vishnu Accompanied by Lakshmi and Sarasvati

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

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
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. 323 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2984887 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-08 12:28 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.