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 seated boy” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 06:12 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 seated boy

Terracotta statuette of a seated boy

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a seated or crawling boy

Terracotta statuette of a seated or crawling boy

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Boys Looking at a Book

Two Boys Looking at a Book

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated boy playing a lute, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

Seated boy playing a lute

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated boy

Seated boy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 325–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha

Seated Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of a seated woman

Terracotta statuette of a seated woman

Artist not stated in the record · 525–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of a seated woman

Terracotta statuette of a seated woman

Artist not stated in the record · 5th 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 statuette of a seated goddess

Terracotta statuette of a seated goddess

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 · 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of a boy

Terracotta statuette of a boy

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd 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. 1505 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. 3856459 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 2026-08-31 06:12 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.