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 “Upper part of a statue of Thutmose III” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:43 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.
Upper part of a statue of Thutmose III

Upper part of a statue of Thutmose III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Phacelia cumingii (Benth.) A. Gray

Phacelia cumingii (Benth.) A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Nov 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sandals

Sandals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carceri Series, Plate III, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Carceri Series, Plate III

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statue of Eros sleeping

Bronze statue of Eros sleeping

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

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a funeral chapel, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of a funeral chapel

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen

Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Patosia clandestina (Phil.) Buchenau

Patosia clandestina (Phil.) Buchenau

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Nov 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Statuette of Thutmose III

Ritual Statuette of Thutmose III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Studies of a Foot

Four Studies of a Foot

Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Main altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Main altar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Vishnu

Enthroned Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 8th–early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Country Villa, by Unknown, Italian

Elevation of a Country Villa

Unknown, Italian · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head and torso of Athena

Marble head and torso of Athena

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a wall of a ballroom, by Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814

Design for a wall of a ballroom

Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upper Half of a Woman from a Pair Statue

Upper Half of a Woman from a Pair Statue

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration for Cosimo III de' Medici, by Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725

Wall Decoration for Cosimo III de' Medici

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725 · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of the Goddess Sakhmet

Statue of the Goddess Sakhmet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Architecture and Figure Studies, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Architecture and Figure Studies

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus

Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus

Artist not stated in the record · 251–253 CE

Public domainThe Met
Two Projects for Painted Decorations of Panels

Two Projects for Painted Decorations of Panels

Artist not stated in the record · 1580–1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy

Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy

Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
Azorella compacta Phil.

Azorella compacta Phil.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Nov 1925

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. 1362 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. 3961055 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-26 22:43 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.