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 “Architectural Fragment from a Retable, Tabernacle, or Tomb” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:57 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.
Architectural Fragment from a Retable, Tabernacle, or Tomb

Architectural Fragment from a Retable, Tabernacle, or Tomb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
The Elevation of an Altar Retable and The Plan for an Altar Retable

The Elevation of an Altar Retable and The Plan for an Altar Retable

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Fragment from a Retable, Tabernacle, or Tomb

Architectural Fragment from a Retable, Tabernacle, or Tomb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
Design for an altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for an altar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Fragment from a Retable, Tabernacle, or Tomb

Architectural Fragment from a Retable, Tabernacle, or Tomb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Main Altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Main Altar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle of Cherves

Tabernacle of Cherves

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–1230

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Design for an Altar

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Main altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Main altar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb of Ermengol VII, Count of Urgell

Tomb of Ermengol VII, Count of Urgell

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1350

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Main Altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Main Altar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Main Altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Main Altar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Stele with Architectural Frame

Funerary Stele with Architectural Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Main Altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Main Altar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of Part of an Altar Retable, from "Architectura und Ausztheilung der V Seulen", by Wendel Dietterlinn the Elder, 1551 – 1599

Elevation of Part of an Altar Retable, from "Architectura und Ausztheilung der V Seulen"

Wendel Dietterlinn the Elder, 1551 – 1599 · 1593–94

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx

Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1160s–70s

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tabernacle

Design for a Tabernacle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Main Altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Main Altar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780-1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed Fragment from a Lintel or Frieze with a Cross and Rosette Medallions

Inscribed Fragment from a Lintel or Frieze with a Cross and Rosette Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tabernacle and a Baptismal Font, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Design for a Tabernacle and a Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1746-1809

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. 52 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2015900 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 18:57 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.