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. 15 shown for “Terracotta statuette of a Nike flying” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:27 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 a Nike flying

Terracotta statuette of a Nike flying

Artist not stated in the record · early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fame or Victory in a Chariot, Sala di Nike, Palazzo Naldi, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Fame or Victory in a Chariot, Sala di Nike, Palazzo Naldi, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of Nike, the personification of victory

Terracotta statuette of Nike, the personification of victory

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

Public domainThe Met
Stag, by Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875

Stag

Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875 · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of Eros flying

Terracotta statuette of Eros flying

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200–150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Golf driver signed by Tiger Woods

Golf driver signed by Tiger Woods

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2005

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
Chalcedony statuette of Nike (Victory)

Chalcedony statuette of Nike (Victory)

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

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of Eros

Terracotta statuette of Eros

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pietà, by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Pietà

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1864

Public domainThe Met
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
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 column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Group of Boston 00.348

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Group of Boston 00.348 · ca. 360–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of Eros flying

Terracotta statuette of Eros flying

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of a seated woman

Terracotta statuette of a seated woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 575–550 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. 649 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. 3926033 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:27 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.