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. 22 shown for “Terracotta relief head of a woman” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:07 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 relief head of a woman

Terracotta relief head of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Woman in Barrel Smoking

Woman in Barrel Smoking

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1895

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

Terracotta relief head of a woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Vecchia Contadina (Old Farm Woman), by Angelo Leone

Vecchia Contadina (Old Farm Woman)

Angelo Leone · after 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta relief with head of a woman

Terracotta relief with head of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Three Pedestals, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Designs for Three Pedestals

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta relief with the head of a woman

Terracotta relief with the head of a woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

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

Terracotta head of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Woman smoking

Woman smoking

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

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

King's attendant

Giuseppe Gori · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish

Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait, by Jacques Sicard, French, 1865–1923

Portrait

Jacques Sicard, French, 1865–1923 · 1902–07

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

Terracotta statue of a young woman

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design, by Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835

Arabesque Design

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of a woman, probably a sphinx

Terracotta head of a woman, probably a sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · 1st quarter of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Door

Door

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta relief with the head and neck of a woman

Terracotta relief with the head and neck of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Five Representations of Women, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Five Representations of Women

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · ca. 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a terracotta relief

Fragment of a terracotta relief

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Woman, by Lorenzo Mosca

Woman

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 20839 matched · 24 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. 3873614 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 16:07 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.