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 head of a grotesque man” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:29 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 head of a grotesque man

Terracotta head of a grotesque man

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Three Grotesque Heads in Profile (After Hogarth)

Three Grotesque Heads in Profile (After Hogarth)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of a man

Terracotta head of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plate 53, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book), by Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618

Plate 53, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618 · 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King's attendant, by Giuseppe Gori

King's attendant

Giuseppe Gori · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Studies of a Foot

Four Studies of a Foot

Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man, by Lorenzo Mosca

Man

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Hugues Brisville, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths), by Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663

Portrait of Hugues Brisville, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · after 1663

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
Architectural Details and Three heads, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Architectural Details and Three heads

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

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

Terracotta statuette of a man

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Gun Parts and Ornament, by François Marcou, French, 1595 – 1660

Designs for Gun Parts and Ornament

François Marcou, French, 1595 – 1660 · 1657

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a mime with a shield

Terracotta statuette of a mime with a shield

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Panel Surmounted with a Head Flanked by Foliage, plate 11 from the Ornamental Panel Surmounted with a Head Flanked by Foliage, from the Livre de Diverses Grotesques peintes dans le Cabinet et Bains de la Reyne Regente, au Palais Royale, by Michel Dorigny, 1617 – 1665

Ornamental Panel Surmounted with a Head Flanked by Foliage, plate 11 from the Ornamental Panel Surmounted with a Head Flanked by Foliage, from the Livre de Diverses Grotesques peintes dans le Cabinet et Bains de la Reyne Regente, au Palais Royale

Michel Dorigny, 1617 – 1665 · 1647

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta grotesque head

Terracotta grotesque head

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

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Cassianus Aputeo

Portrait of Cassianus Aputeo

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a male figure

Terracotta fragment of a male figure

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Porte pour le Sallon à l'Italienne Cotté CIX, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Porte pour le Sallon à l'Italienne Cotté CIX

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man

Man

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of the Right Top Part of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for the Embroidery of the Right Top Part of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze grotesque

Bronze grotesque

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Gun Parts and Ornament, by François Marcou, French, 1595 – 1660

Designs for Gun Parts and Ornament

François Marcou, French, 1595 – 1660 · 1657

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of an old woman

Terracotta head of an old woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Plate 25, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren, by Hans Vredeman de Vries, Dutch, 1527 - ca. 1606

Plate 25, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren

Hans Vredeman de Vries, Dutch, 1527 - ca. 1606 · 1564

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. 19432 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. 3879364 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 2026-08-28 03:29 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.