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 “Anonymous, Italian, 19th century” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:57 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.
Classicizing Frieze with Three Putti holding up a Garland, by Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

Classicizing Frieze with Three Putti holding up a Garland

Anonymous, Italian, 19th century · 1800–1900

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

Vase

Anonymous, Italian, 19th century · 1800–1900

Public domainThe Met
Brooch, by Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895

Brooch

Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen, by Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

Tureen

Anonymous, Italian, 19th century · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

Title Page

Anonymous, Italian, 19th century · 1800–1900

Public domainThe Met
Baths of Acqua Santa, by Gaspare Salvi, Italian, 1786 - 1849

Baths of Acqua Santa

Gaspare Salvi, Italian, 1786 - 1849 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen, by Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

Tureen

Anonymous, Italian, 19th century · 1800–1900

Public domainThe Met
Brooch, by Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895

Brooch

Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan, by Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

Fan

Anonymous, Italian, 19th century · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Aqueduct, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Aqueduct

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior of a Drawing Room, by Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

Interior of a Drawing Room

Anonymous, Italian, 19th century · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Design of Flower Sprays and Butterflies, by Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

Design of Flower Sprays and Butterflies

Anonymous, Italian, 19th century · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ceiling Decoration, by Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

Design for a Ceiling Decoration

Anonymous, Italian, 19th century · 1800–1900

Public domainThe Met
Scene with a Saint, by Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

Scene with a Saint

Anonymous, Italian, 19th century · 1800–1900

Public domainThe Met
Cupid, by Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

Cupid

Anonymous, Italian, 19th century · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Empty Stage, by Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

Empty Stage

Anonymous, Italian, 19th century · 19th century

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. 8134 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. 44412 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 2026-08-28 06:57 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.