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 “Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with female head” — 58 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:50 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 antefix (roof tile) with female head

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with female head

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stove and cover

Stove and cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with female head

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with female head

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

Public domainThe Met
Architectural element

Architectural element

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta antefix (roof tile)

Terracotta antefix (roof tile)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 625–600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Black Forest Sketches, by Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943

Black Forest Sketches

Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943 · September 18, 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a woman

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta antefix (roof tile)

Terracotta antefix (roof tile)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a maenad

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a maenad

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta gorgoneion antefix (roof tile)

Terracotta gorgoneion antefix (roof tile)

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta gorgoneion antefix (roof tile)

Terracotta gorgoneion antefix (roof tile)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 580–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antefix

Antefix

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta antefix (roof tile)

Terracotta antefix (roof tile)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 2 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. 828500 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 23:50 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.