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 statuette of a woman reclining on a couch” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:30 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 woman reclining on a couch

Terracotta statuette of a woman reclining on a couch

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

Public domainThe Met
A girl reclining on a couch, reading, by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

A girl reclining on a couch, reading

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1858-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jeweled Sculpture of Antony, Cleopatra, and Attendant

Jeweled Sculpture of Antony, Cleopatra, and Attendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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
Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

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
Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Stretching, by Edgar Degas

Woman Stretching

Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1884–89, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Wooded Landscape with Elijah Awakened and Nourished by an Angel on Mount Horeb [above left]; Annunciation [below left]; The Banquet of King Ahasuerus [above right]; Christ Surrounded by Angels with the Arma Christi [below right]., by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Wooded Landscape with Elijah Awakened and Nourished by an Angel on Mount Horeb [above left]; Annunciation [below left]; The Banquet of King Ahasuerus [above right]; Christ Surrounded by Angels with the Arma Christi [below right].

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her Arms

Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her Arms

Artist not stated in the record · 610–595 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

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
Cupid Resting, after a painting formerly attributed to Rembrandt, by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669

Cupid Resting, after a painting formerly attributed to Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669 · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble female figure, by Bastis Master

Marble female figure

Bastis Master · 2600–2400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Getting out of the Bath, by Edgar Degas

Woman Getting out of the Bath

Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1890 or later, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Study of the Feet of a Reclining Woman, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of the Feet of a Reclining Woman

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
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
Pietà, by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Pietà

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Reclining Woman

Reclining Woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

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. 1059 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. 3970162 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-27 03:30 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.