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. 12 shown for “Altar coffer” — 40 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:56 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Le Profil du dedans de l’Eglise de nostre Dame des Ardilieres les Saumur Que fait bastir Monseignr. Le Comte de Servien, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Le Profil du dedans de l’Eglise de nostre Dame des Ardilieres les Saumur Que fait bastir Monseignr. Le Comte de Servien

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Altar at San Petronio, Bologna, by Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, Italian, 1735 – 1817

Design for an Altar at San Petronio, Bologna

Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, Italian, 1735 – 1817 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Designs for Altars, by Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692

Six Designs for Altars

Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation of an altar in an apse

Elevation of an altar in an apse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Section of an Apse

Section of an Apse

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painted decoration of a vaulted room

Painted decoration of a vaulted room

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an altar for St. Anthony of Padua, by Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709

Design for an altar for St. Anthony of Padua

Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709 · 1685–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Coffered Ceiling, with the Muses

Design for a Coffered Ceiling, with the Muses

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design: Hall with Coffered Ceiling and Urns

Stage Design: Hall with Coffered Ceiling and Urns

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781

Ornamental Vase Design

Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Wallace Wallpaper Co., by Wallace Wall-Paper Co., Cortland, New York

The Wallace Wallpaper Co.

Wallace Wall-Paper Co., Cortland, New York · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan et Décoration convenable pour un Cabinet;, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791

Plan et Décoration convenable pour un Cabinet;

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791 · 1757

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1304 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-27 12:56 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.