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. 19 shown for “Votive Fragment, Bust of Hathoritic Figure” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:57 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.
Votive Fragment, Bust of Hathoritic Figure

Votive Fragment, Bust of Hathoritic Figure

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

Public domainThe Met
shrine, votive with figure of four-armed Ganesha

shrine, votive with figure of four-armed Ganesha

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Votive Stele of Prince Lo-an, by Unidentified (Chinese)

Votive Stele of Prince Lo-an

Unidentified (Chinese) · 1700-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Royal bust

Royal bust

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Royal bust

Royal bust

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Votive Image of a Boy Presented by his Parents to St. Nicholas of Bari, by Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786

A Votive Image of a Boy Presented by his Parents to St. Nicholas of Bari

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crowned Bodhisattva

Crowned Bodhisattva

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

Public domainThe Met
A Votive Offering, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

A Votive Offering

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of a priestly figure

Bust of a priestly figure

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of relief plaque with a child god, inscribed on reverse

Fragment of relief plaque with a child god, inscribed on reverse

Artist not stated in the record · 500–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ginevra (fragment), by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Ginevra (fragment)

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · revised 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
A Hypocrite and a Slanderer, by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

A Hypocrite and a Slanderer

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt · ca. 1770–83

Public domainThe Met
Bust of a royal figure with downward-hanging snake

Bust of a royal figure with downward-hanging snake

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Royal bust with atypical snake

Royal bust with atypical snake

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze portrait of a man

Bronze portrait of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
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. 120 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. 2876647 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 20:57 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.