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 an enthroned goddess between two attendants” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:37 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 enthroned goddess between two attendants

Terracotta statuette of an enthroned goddess between two attendants

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical subject, by Domenico Mondo, Italian, 1723 - 1806

Allegorical subject

Domenico Mondo, Italian, 1723 - 1806 · before 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goddess who bestows riches, probably Sri Lakshmi

Goddess who bestows riches, probably Sri Lakshmi

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Bedroom Furniture

Design for Bedroom Furniture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Amasis Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Amasis Painter · ca. 550–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Festive Court Scene and Scene of an Execution of a Grand Vizir, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Festive Court Scene and Scene of an Execution of a Grand Vizir

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Romulus and Remus, Thirteen Paintings for the Sala delle Origini di Roma, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Romulus and Remus, Thirteen Paintings for the Sala delle Origini di Roma, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette

Terracotta statuette

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

Public domainThe Met
VENUS OU LA COQUETTERIE, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

VENUS OU LA COQUETTERIE

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Virgin and Child

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300

Public domainThe Met
The Nativity (Adoration of the Shepherds) from The Little Passion Series

The Nativity (Adoration of the Shepherds) from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified, by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified

Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1560–70

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decorations of Three Pilaster Strips, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Decorations of Three Pilaster Strips

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of Cybele on a cart drawn by lions

Bronze statuette of Cybele on a cart drawn by lions

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Design for an Altar, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for an Altar

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690

Title Page

Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690 · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Eretria Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Eretria Painter · ca. 420 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690

Title Page

Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690 · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief scene from the tomb of Queen Neferu: fragments from two registers showing male and female attendants moving to the right

Relief scene from the tomb of Queen Neferu: fragments from two registers showing male and female attendants moving to the right

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 1701–50

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. 94 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. 2940687 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 08:37 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.