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 canopy” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:25 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Canopy

Canopy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1402–26

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain

Design for a Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural canopy

Architectural canopy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Designs, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Arabesque Ornament Designs

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural canopy

Architectural canopy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Designs, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Arabesque Ornament Designs

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural canopy

Architectural canopy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Mock embroidered picture

Mock embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural canopy

Architectural canopy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Panel Design, by Bellay, French, active from 1734

Panel Design

Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734-49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural canopy

Architectural canopy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Designs, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Arabesque Ornament Designs

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural canopy

Architectural canopy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Designs, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Arabesque Ornament Designs

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Canopy

Architectural Canopy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hand Fan (Right Plate), by Bellay, French, active from 1734

Design for a Hand Fan (Right Plate)

Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopy from the tomb of Philip III (the Bold) of France (1245-1285), by Jean d'Arras

Canopy from the tomb of Philip III (the Bold) of France (1245-1285)

Jean d'Arras · 1297–1307

Public domainThe Met
Design with Minerva under an Arch

Design with Minerva under an Arch

Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden

The Agony in the Garden

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Design for Three Tomb Monuments, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Three Tomb Monuments

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ

The Baptism of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Full size sketch for a cartoon for cotton printing:The Arts [Les Arts], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Full size sketch for a cartoon for cotton printing:The Arts [Les Arts]

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · ca. 1815–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Icon with the Crucifixion

Icon with the Crucifixion

Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for a cartoon for cotton printing:The Arts [Les Arts], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Sketch for a cartoon for cotton printing:The Arts [Les Arts]

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · possibly 1815–20

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. 176 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 18371 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-02 21:25 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.