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 statue of a young woman” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:20 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 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
Portrait of a Young Woman, by Unknown, American

Portrait of a Young Woman

Unknown, American · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a young woman

Bronze statuette of a young woman

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

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

Five Circular Representations of Young Women

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Young Woman

Study of a Young Woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a member of the imperial family

Marble statue of a member of the imperial family

Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–68 CE

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

Five Circular Representations of Young Women

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of Eirene (the personification of peace), by Kephisodotos

Marble statue of Eirene (the personification of peace)

Kephisodotos · ca. 14–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Young Woman

Study of a Young Woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove

Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Young Woman

Study of a Young Woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

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

Terracotta statuette of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Young Woman

Study of a Young Woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a woman looking into a box mirror

Terracotta statuette of a woman looking into a box mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Young Woman in a Ball Gown

Portrait of a Young Woman in a Ball Gown

Artist not stated in the record · 1746

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a kore (maiden)

Marble statue of a kore (maiden)

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

Public domainThe Met
Portrait Sketch of a Young Woman, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

Portrait Sketch of a Young Woman

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1885

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

Terracotta statuette of a young woman

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Young Woman, by George Charles Aid, American, 1872–1938

Head of a Young Woman

George Charles Aid, American, 1872–1938 · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Man and Woman in an Inn, by Frans Hals

Young Man and Woman in an Inn

Frans Hals · 1623

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Young Woman, by Gilbert Tompkins, New York, NY, USA

Portrait of a Young Woman

Gilbert Tompkins, New York, NY, USA · 1902

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
Portrait of a Young Woman, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

Portrait of a Young Woman

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1885

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. 3871 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. 3943158 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-26 18:20 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.