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 “A Room in the Reuss Palace, Dresden” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 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.
Dagger with Scabbard, by Wolf Paller

Dagger with Scabbard

Wolf Paller · ca. 1575

Public domainThe Met
A Room in the Reuss Palace, Dresden

A Room in the Reuss Palace, Dresden

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheellock Gun Made for the Bodyguard of the Prince-Elector of Saxony

Wheellock Gun Made for the Bodyguard of the Prince-Elector of Saxony

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1589

Public domainThe Met
Decagonal Slop Bowl, from the Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Decagonal Slop Bowl, from the Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1729–1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bedroom from the Sagredo Palace, by Abbondio Stazio

Bedroom from the Sagredo Palace

Abbondio Stazio · ca. 1720 or later

Public domainThe Met
Concert Room of Sanssouci Palace, Potsdam, Germany, by Eduard Gaertner, 1801 – 1877

Concert Room of Sanssouci Palace, Potsdam, Germany

Eduard Gaertner, 1801 – 1877 · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, by Francesco di Giorgio Martini

Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio

Francesco di Giorgio Martini · ca. 1478–82

Public domainThe Met
A Room in a Florentine Palace, by Unknown, Italian

A Room in a Florentine Palace

Unknown, Italian · 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris, by Nicolas Huyot

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris

Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's Sitting Room, Cottage Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia, by Eduard Petrovich Hau, Estonian, 1807 – 1888

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's Sitting Room, Cottage Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia

Eduard Petrovich Hau, Estonian, 1807 – 1888 · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David and Goliath, by Francesco Fanelli

David and Goliath

Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

Public domainThe Met
The Chinese Room in the Royal Palace, Berlin, by Eduard Gaertner, 1801 – 1877

The Chinese Room in the Royal Palace, Berlin

Eduard Gaertner, 1801 – 1877 · 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Louis XV Room, by Jean-François Roumier

The Louis XV Room

Jean-François Roumier · ca. 1720–25, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design for the Interiors of a Palace, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Design for the Interiors of a Palace

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Dresden Star Quilt, by Ira Blount

Dresden Star Quilt

Ira Blount · mid 20th-early 21st Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration for the Drawing Room of the Palace of Caserta, by Nicola Fiore

Wall Decoration for the Drawing Room of the Palace of Caserta

Nicola Fiore · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (commode servante or commode desserte), by Jean Henri Riesener

Side table (commode servante or commode desserte)

Jean Henri Riesener · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
PLAN GENERAL DES BATIMENS ET DU GRAND JARDIN ELECTORALE DE SAXE AVEC CES DEPENDANCES PROJETE SUR UN TERRAIN SIS A UNE DEMIE LIEU DE DRESDE, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

PLAN GENERAL DES BATIMENS ET DU GRAND JARDIN ELECTORALE DE SAXE AVEC CES DEPENDANCES PROJETE SUR UN TERRAIN SIS A UNE DEMIE LIEU DE DRESDE

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bench Side-Panel Depicting a Calf in the Marshes

Bench Side-Panel Depicting a Calf in the Marshes

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

Public domainThe Met
Lithophane of a Dresden Landscape

Lithophane of a Dresden Landscape

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Palais Paar, 30 Wollzeile, Vienna, Austria, by Isidor Canevale

Boiserie from the Palais Paar, 30 Wollzeile, Vienna, Austria

Isidor Canevale · ca. 1765–72, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sofa and Mirror, Portrait Room, Royal Palace; Warsaw, Poland, by Jean Louis Prieur, French, 1732 - 1795

Design for Sofa and Mirror, Portrait Room, Royal Palace; Warsaw, Poland

Jean Louis Prieur, French, 1732 - 1795 · ca. 1766

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. 684 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 7483529 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-01 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.