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 an emaciated woman” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:39 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 an emaciated woman

Terracotta statuette of an emaciated woman

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Facial Expressions, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Facial Expressions

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

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
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
Tile with Impressed Figures of Emaciated Ascetics and Couples Behind Balconies

Tile with Impressed Figures of Emaciated Ascetics and Couples Behind Balconies

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a terracotta statuette of an old woman

Fragment of a terracotta statuette of an old woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Woman Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Woman Painter · ca. 420–400 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 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 woman with bird face

Terracotta statuette of woman with bird face

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of a woman

Terracotta statuette of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
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
Terracotta statuette of a woman

Terracotta statuette of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · 6th 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. 694 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. 2871136 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 2026-08-28 09:39 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.