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 “The Mother Goddess Men Brajut (Hariti)” — 56 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:28 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.
The Mother Goddess Men Brajut (Hariti)

The Mother Goddess Men Brajut (Hariti)

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: O Goddess! Mother!, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: O Goddess! Mother!

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rondel with the Goddess Hariti

Rondel with the Goddess Hariti

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Persephone Painter

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

Persephone Painter · ca. 440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Le Retour du Baptesme (Return from the Baptism), Plate IV, from Le Mariage à la Ville (Marriage in the City), by Abraham Bosse, French, 1602–1676

Le Retour du Baptesme (Return from the Baptism), Plate IV, from Le Mariage à la Ville (Marriage in the City)

Abraham Bosse, French, 1602–1676 · 1633

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), by Exekias

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Exekias · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with immortals

Panel with immortals

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Man the Farmer, Diana the Goddess of the Hunt, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Man the Farmer, Diana the Goddess of the Hunt, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1787–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Deceased censing and libating to the deified Mentuhotep and Ahmose-Nefertari, with the Hathor cow emerging from the mountain; Tomb of Ameneminet, by Charles K. Wilkinson

Deceased censing and libating to the deified Mentuhotep and Ahmose-Nefertari, with the Hathor cow emerging from the mountain; Tomb of Ameneminet

Charles K. Wilkinson · 1924–1925; original ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Venus Beside the Sleeping Adonis

Venus Beside the Sleeping Adonis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bed curtain border

Bed curtain border

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Towel border

Towel border

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies, frontispiece for Paolantonio Paoli, Rovine della città di Pesto detta ancora Posidonia (1784), by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770

Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies, frontispiece for Paolantonio Paoli, Rovine della città di Pesto detta ancora Posidonia (1784)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bed curtain border

Bed curtain border

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Nero Finding the Body of His Mother, Agrippina, by Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843

Nero Finding the Body of His Mother, Agrippina

Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Diana and Actaeon [above]; Dido and Aeneas Shelter from the Storm [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Diana and Actaeon [above]; Dido and Aeneas Shelter from the Storm [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1589 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raising the Alms-Bowl, by unidentified artist

Raising the Alms-Bowl

unidentified artist · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
A Sleeping Man and Mother with Baby, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

A Sleeping Man and Mother with Baby

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Loving Couple (Mithuna)

Loving Couple (Mithuna)

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

Public domainThe Met
The Genius of the Painter, by Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691

The Genius of the Painter

Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691 · 1645–47

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. 16 matched · 16 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. 1213846 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-03 00:28 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.