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. 19 shown for “Terracotta statuette fragment of a male votary holding a kid” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:20 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 statuette fragment of a male votary holding a kid

Terracotta statuette fragment of a male votary holding a kid

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

Public domainThe Met
Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a male votary offering a kid

Terracotta statuette of a male votary offering a kid

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

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

Terracotta statuette fragment of a male votary

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

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

Terracotta statuette fragment of a male votary

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company, by Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s

Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company

Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s · ca. 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a male figure holding the head and neck of a mask or image

Terracotta statuette of a male figure holding the head and neck of a mask or image

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750–600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team

Artist not stated in the record · 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a male votary (worshipper)

Limestone statuette of a male votary (worshipper)

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

Public domainThe Met
Figure

Figure

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

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

Terracotta statuette of a standing woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary terracotta statuette of a woman with a kithara

Fragmentary terracotta statuette of a woman with a kithara

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette fragment of a deer sacrificed at an altar to Artemis

Terracotta statuette fragment of a deer sacrificed at an altar to Artemis

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a terracotta relief of a woman and child

Fragment of a terracotta relief of a woman and child

Artist not stated in the record · mid-4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 490–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)

Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)

Artist not stated in the record · 540–530 BCE

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. 394 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. 4317454 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 23:20 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.