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. 14 shown for “Terracotta statuette of Hyakinthos on a swan” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 03:00 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 of Hyakinthos on a swan

Terracotta statuette of Hyakinthos on a swan

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Candlestick

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1827-1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leda and the Swan, by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse

Leda and the Swan

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse · ca. 1870

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
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
Pietà, by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Pietà

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Terracotta statuette of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of Harpokrates riding a goose

Terracotta statuette of Harpokrates riding a goose

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fidelity, the Mother of Constant Love, by Augustin Pajou

Fidelity, the Mother of Constant Love

Augustin Pajou · 1799

Public domainThe Met
Marble female figure, by Bastis Master

Marble female figure

Bastis Master · 2600–2400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of a goat

Terracotta statuette of a goat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of a draped woman

Terracotta statuette of a draped woman

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of a seated woman

Terracotta statuette of a seated woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta disk with Aphrodite riding on a swan

Terracotta disk with Aphrodite riding on a swan

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century 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. 202 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. 3970766 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 03:00 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.