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 “Tile Inlay of a Torso” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:38 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.
Tile Inlay of a Torso

Tile Inlay of a Torso

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
drapery study for costumed male torso, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

drapery study for costumed male torso

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile Inlay Depicting a Torso

Tile Inlay Depicting a Torso

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Torso

Torso

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile Inlay from the Palace of Ramesses II, Torso of a Mesopotamian or Syrian Captive

Tile Inlay from the Palace of Ramesses II, Torso of a Mesopotamian or Syrian Captive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Woman's Torso, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Woman's Torso

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze torso of a youth

Bronze torso of a youth

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Male Torso From a Plaster Cast, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Male Torso From a Plaster Cast

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile Inlay depicting a Wig

Tile Inlay depicting a Wig

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wooden Inlay Fragment Created By Peter Glass, by Glass, Peter

Wooden Inlay Fragment Created By Peter Glass

Glass, Peter · Late 19th C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile Inlay from the Palace of Ramesses II, Captives of Non-Semitic Northern Peoples

Tile Inlay from the Palace of Ramesses II, Captives of Non-Semitic Northern Peoples

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four tile

Four tile

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile Inlay from the Palace of Ramesses II, Captives of Non-Semitic Northern Peoples

Tile Inlay from the Palace of Ramesses II, Captives of Non-Semitic Northern Peoples

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Male Torso From a Plaster Cast, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Male Torso From a Plaster Cast

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Faience Inlay

Faience Inlay

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1197–1166 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Corsetted Female Torso

Corsetted Female Torso

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with a head of a Mesopotamian captive from the palace of Ramesses II

Tile with a head of a Mesopotamian captive from the palace of Ramesses II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

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

Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Torsos

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with a fragment from a head of a Mesopotamian captive from the palace of Ramesses II

Tile with a fragment from a head of a Mesopotamian captive from the palace of Ramesses II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Floor tile from the Mecca Flats Apartments in Chicago, Illinois, by Edbrooke & Burnham, American, 1879 - 1892

Floor tile from the Mecca Flats Apartments in Chicago, Illinois

Edbrooke & Burnham, American, 1879 - 1892 · 1891-1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Faience Inlay

Faience Inlay

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1197–1166 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from the walls of Throne Room in Palace of Ramesses II

Tile from the walls of Throne Room in Palace of Ramesses II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Female Torso From a Plaster Cast, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Female Torso From a Plaster Cast

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1840

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. 136 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. 3852207 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-28 03:38 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.