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. 18 shown for “West's” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 03:52 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.
Goddess who bestows riches, probably Sri Lakshmi

Goddess who bestows riches, probably Sri Lakshmi

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Benjamin West and Family, by D. P. Pariset, 1740 - 1840?

Benjamin West and Family

D. P. Pariset, 1740 - 1840? · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mourning hat, by West's

Mourning hat

West's · ca. 1888

Public domainThe Met
Symploca cuspidata var. luteofusca W. West & G.S. West

Symploca cuspidata var. luteofusca W. West & G.S. West

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a woman looking into a box mirror

Terracotta statuette of a woman looking into a box mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Polycystis elongata W. West & G.S. West

Polycystis elongata W. West & G.S. West

Artist not stated in the record · May 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: West Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: West Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chroococcus minor f. minimus W. West & G.S. West

Chroococcus minor f. minimus W. West & G.S. West

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1892 to Dec 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hapalosiphon intricatus W. West & G.S. West

Hapalosiphon intricatus W. West & G.S. West

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1892 to Dec 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lakshmi

Lakshmi

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

Public domainThe Met
Symploca cuspidata W. West & G.S. West

Symploca cuspidata W. West & G.S. West

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1892 to Dec 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Standing Yakshi

Plaque with Standing Yakshi

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Kali

Kali

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885–95

Public domainThe Met
The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara Expounding the Dharma to a Devotee: Folio from a Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra Manuscript, by Mahavihara Master

The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara Expounding the Dharma to a Devotee: Folio from a Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra Manuscript

Mahavihara Master · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Plaque with a Winged Goddess and Two Attendants

Plaque with a Winged Goddess and Two Attendants

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

Public domainThe Met
Plaque with the Goddess Durga Standing on a Lotus

Plaque with the Goddess Durga Standing on a Lotus

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Sun God Surya(?) in His Chariot with Wives and Attendants

The Sun God Surya(?) in His Chariot with Wives and Attendants

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

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. 11326 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 525351 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 03:52 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.