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 “Veiled Woman” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:06 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 Veiled Woman, by Rafaello Monti

The Veiled Woman

Rafaello Monti · 1854

Public domainThe Met
The End of the Year, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1780 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"

The End of the Year, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1780 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"

Artist not stated in the record · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Veiled Woman

Veiled Woman

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
A Young Woman Withdrawing Her Veil

A Young Woman Withdrawing Her Veil

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta seated veiled woman

Terracotta seated veiled woman

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Edward VII and Alexandra, by Unidentified Artist

Edward VII and Alexandra

Unidentified Artist · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a veiled woman

Terracotta statuette of a veiled woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Persian miniature: Standing woman, by Unknown

Persian miniature: Standing woman

Unknown · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of a veiled woman

Terracotta head of a veiled woman

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Angna Enters, by Doris Ulmann, 29 May 1882 - 28 Aug 1934

Angna Enters

Doris Ulmann, 29 May 1882 - 28 Aug 1934 · c. 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a veiled woman

Terracotta statuette of a veiled woman

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Letter Q of a Pictoral Alphabet: Quietness, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for the Letter Q of a Pictoral Alphabet: Quietness

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of a veiled woman

Terracotta head of a veiled woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Unidentified Woman

Unidentified Woman

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a veiled woman

Terracotta statuette of a veiled woman

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Unidentified Woman

Unidentified Woman

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of a veiled woman

Terracotta head of a veiled woman

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Unidentified Woman

Unidentified Woman

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze relief of a veiled woman riding a sea-goat

Bronze relief of a veiled woman riding a sea-goat

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Unidentified Woman

Unidentified Woman

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Veiled woman, by Giovanni Battista Lombardi

Veiled woman

Giovanni Battista Lombardi · 1869

Public domainThe Met
Unidentified Woman

Unidentified Woman

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer

Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer

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

Public domainThe Met
Unidentified Woman

Unidentified Woman

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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. 172 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 37360 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-04 04:06 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.