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 “Study of the Heads of a Chicken and Stag” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:39 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.
Bust of a Bodhisattva

Bust of a Bodhisattva

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

Public domainThe Met
Study of the Heads of a Chicken and Stag

Study of the Heads of a Chicken and Stag

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Headband with Heads of Gazelles and a Stag Between Stars or Flowers

Headband with Heads of Gazelles and a Stag Between Stars or Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1648–1540 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Study of stag head, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Study of stag head

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Kneeling Captive

Statue of Kneeling Captive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of stag head, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Study of stag head

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Study of stag head, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Study of stag head

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaikuntha Vishnu

Vaikuntha Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Studies of Ducks and a Fowl with Chickens, by Henry Bernard Chalon, English, 1770 - 1849

Studies of Ducks and a Fowl with Chickens

Henry Bernard Chalon, English, 1770 - 1849 · 1825–1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha

Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
A Standing Stag, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

A Standing Stag

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1846–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762

Title Page

Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen

Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 270–250 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pynson Wilmot Bennitt's Room, Trinity College, Oxford, by Arthur Frederick Payne, English

Pynson Wilmot Bennitt's Room, Trinity College, Oxford

Arthur Frederick Payne, English · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of Eleven Heads, by Jacques de Gheyn II

Study of Eleven Heads

Jacques de Gheyn II · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sheet with Three Heads, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Sheet with Three Heads

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso of a Bodhisattva, by Sahri-Bahlol Workshop

Torso of a Bodhisattva

Sahri-Bahlol Workshop · ca. 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Chest protector

Chest protector

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling in Hadrian's Villa, with Nymphs, Centaurs, Stags, and Elephants, by Unknown, Italian

Ceiling in Hadrian's Villa, with Nymphs, Centaurs, Stags, and Elephants

Unknown, Italian · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diana and the Stag, by Joachim Friess

Diana and the Stag

Joachim Friess · ca. 1620

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mantelpiece with Alternative Suggestions

Design for a Mantelpiece with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1690–1720

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. 38022 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. 4139068 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 06:39 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.